Filipp Piatov

Filipp Piatov, born in 1991 in what was then the Soviet Union, moved to Germany with his family just one year later. After studying economics in Frankfurt am Main, he published opinion pieces in *Die Welt* and a book on Russia with dtv. He has been working for BILD since 2017 and has reported on the refugee crisis, the final years of the Merkel era and the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2022, he was working as a reporter in Ukraine when Russia launched its large-scale war of aggression. Since 2023, he has been part of the management team of the politics department and heads the editorial team of the RONZHEIMER podcast. Since this year, he has also been producing his history podcast, ZEITREISE, twice a month.