This Monday the Pulitzer 2025 Awards and the Argentine journalist, Silvina Frydlewskywas nominated for a job in the Wall Street Journal. His participation was within the research on the espionage network of Vladimir Putin And the discovery of Two Russian spies in Slovenia with documentation from Argentina.
This series of notes, which includes several publications on the influence of Kremlin in the West, was under the category of international report. However, the prize finally ended up taking the journalist Declan Walsh of the New York Times For his research on the conflict in Sudan, the illegal gold trade and the regional negotiations that feed local violence.
The Pulitzer were established in 1917 to recognize outstanding achievements in printed and online journalism, literature and musical composition in the USA. The administration of these awards is in charge of the Columbia University in New York.
Every year, some of which may include additional special recognition are granted in twenty -two categories. In twenty of those categories, the winners receive a certificate and an cash prize of $ 10,000. The award in the public service category of journalism, meanwhile, grants a gold medal.
On this occasion, the Public Service Award was awarded for the second consecutive year to Propublica for its coverage on the reduction of access to abortion Already reproductive health services in the United States. The jury praised the reports of Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser, Cassandra Jaramillo and Stacy Kranitz, who documented the deaths of pregnant women after doctors delayed urgent care for fear of violating inaccurate regulations in states with restrictive laws.
The story around Vladimir Putin revolved around the case that ended with the arrest of the American journalist, Evan Gershkovich. The correspondent of the same newspaper was 491 days in the custody of the Moscow authorities before being released in exchange for an exchange of prisoners between the government of the then US president, Joe Bidenand the Kremlin.
The 32 -year -old reporter had been documenting repression in Russia, when he was abruptly arrested in a restaurant. In this way, Gershkovich was part of a complex exchange that included two more and eight Russian Americans, many of them considered dissidents who had supported poisoning and hunger strikes.
In that framework, the participation of Silvina Frydlewsky was related to a case that was published by Infobaeabout Los espías rusos artiom dultsev y anna dultseva They had Argentine passports, were based in Slovenia and were part of an exchange to return to Moscow.
Your contribution to work entitled “Russian spies next door“It was part of a coverage that tried to unmask the extraordinary intelligence network that Putin had in the West. In that sense, the history of the Dulttsev It has to do with that plan.
To understand, the agents were arrested in December 2022 in Slovenia. They had arrived in that country with Argentine passport in 2017. They lived in Liubliana with their children, under the names of Ludwig Gisch y María Rosa Mayer Muños y using an art gallery and a computer business such as cover.
Although they had been sentenced to a year and a half in prison for Slovenian justice, Putin himself received them In Moscowafter they were exchanged in the framework of a great exchange of prisoners between Russia and the western countries, the largest from the Cold war.
The Kremlin acknowledged that Both were “illegal” agents of Russian intelligence servicesthat is, spies that were not informed by embassies and operated without visible links for Moscow. In that sense, these agents are trained for years to impersonate foreigners and are then sent to other countries to penetrate different structures. Not even their own children, they usually knew that their parents are Russian.
In the investigation, Frydlewsky with the journalists of the same newspaper, Georgi Kantchev y Joe Parkinsonrevealed the existence of other spies in Athens and Rio de Janeiro that gathered the same conditions as the Dultsev.
“The couple carried passports that identified them as Mary super y Ludwig Campos Wittich. In fact, they were married Russian intelligence officers who still built their legend – the false history of a spy – separately in Greece and Brazil, a process that Western intelligence agencies estimate that it costs millions of dollars per person. They were called back to Moscow for their contacts, who feared the collapse of the network after arrests in Sloveniaaccording to the authorities, “they said in their journalistic note.
And they explained that these agents “spend years entering the target region, creating a network of information sources, identifying candidates to recruit and accepting missions as intermediaries for spies with diplomatic coverage, who are usually under close surveillance by their host countries.”
“These spies that change shape They are becoming an increasingly important tool for Kremlin after the expulsion of some 700 alleged Russian intelligence agents that operated under diplomatic coverage worldwide after the invasion of Ukraine, ”they added.
In recent history, other Argentines have been recognized with the prestigious Pulitzer for their work in different areas of journalism. One of the most prominent is the photographer Rodrigo Abdwho, as part of the team of Associated Presshe received the award for his photographic coverage of the war in Ukraine.
In particular, your image of Nadiya Trubchaninova, a 70 -year -old woman crying next to her son’s coffinIt was key in this recognition. Abd, who had already won the Pulitzer in 2013 for his work in Syria, highlighted the value of the collective effort in obtaining this award, since “photography has a very individualistic format”, but its success was the result of the joint work of colleagues and editors.
On the other hand, the writer Hernán Díazborn in Buenos Aires in 1973, he received Pulitzer in 2023 in the fiction category by Your novel Fortuna (originally Trust). His work, which examines wealth and ambition through a complex narrative game, was acclaimed for his deep exploration of human relations in a context of capitalism. This is an important milestone in his career, after being a finalist in 2018 with his first novel In the distance.
