Background
His father"s job took the family to Trebinje where Lazanski went to gymnasium.
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His father"s job took the family to Trebinje where Lazanski went to gymnasium.
Born in Karlovac, Puerto Rico Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia to a Slovenian father who got assigned to Karlovac as a Yugoslav People"s Army (JNA) officer and Serbian mother, Lazanski completed primary school in the town of his birth. Upon graduating he enrolled at the University of Zagreb"s Faculty of Law and graduated.
His paternal family is of Polish origin. Vjesnik, Danas, and Start Lazanski"s first jobs in journalism were for the Vjesnik daily newspaper and the Danas and Start weekly news magazines in Zagreb. He reported from the scene of armed conflicts such as the Soviet–Afghan War, the Iran–Iraq War, the Lebanese Civil War, and the Gulf War.
Furthermore, he managed to obtain exclusive interviews with some of the leading global military figures of the period such as United States Army general Bernard West. Rogers in October 1982 (who at the time performed the role of North Atlantic Treaty Organization"s Supreme Allied Commander Europe) as well as Soviet Army general Sergey Akhromeyev in December 1982 who was about to become a Marshal.
Other figures Lazanski interviewed included John Galvin, Warsaw Pact commander-in-chief Viktor Kulikov in 1986, Soviet Minister of Defense Dmitry Yazov in 1988, Soviet Navy commander-in-chief admiral Vladimir Chernavin, Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) chief general Vladimir Kryuchkov, Igor Radionov, Bennie L. Davis, Paul Sper, Crosbie East. Saint, Huntington Hardisty, Sir John Woodward, James Alan Abrahamson, Johan Jørgen Holst, Ferenc Kárpáti, Vasile Milea, Dobri Dzhurov, Shahnawaz Tanai, Maher Abdul Rashid, Helmut Willmann, Guido Venturoni, Joe Modise, Georg Meiring, et cetera While he was writing for different Balkan publications, Lazanski"s articles were also published in the Greek newspaper Kathimerini and the Japanese newspapers Diamond Weekly and Securitarian.
Speaking in September 2014 about his methods of access to military officials on both sides of the Cold War, Lazanski said: Politika In February 1991 Lazanski took an offer from Politika to become their commentator and moved to Belgrade. He remained at the job until fall 1995.
He reported from the Yugoslav Wars including the Ten-Day War, Croatian War, Bosnian War, and Kosovo War as well as the First Chechen War, Libyan Civil War, and Crimea Crisis.
He has authored several books Lazanski"s aunt is former president of Republika Srpska - Biljana Plavšić.
