Miroslav Lazanski

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Miroslav Lazanski

Miroslav Lazanski (born December 18, 1950 in Karlovac , People's Republic of Croatia ) is a Yugoslav and Serbian journalist and diplomat .

Life

Miroslav Lazanski was the son of a Slovenian professional soldier and a Serb woman. His aunt is the former President of the Serbian Republic, Biljana Plavšić . Grandfather and uncle perished in the Jasenovac concentration camp during the Second World War . He spent his childhood in various Yugoslav garrison towns. He finished high school in Trebinje at the “Jovan Dučić” high school. In Zagreb , he enrolled in law at the University of Zagreb . He served in the JNA's 41st Infantry Division in Bitola in 1977 , where he received a medal for military skills.

career

As an ambassador in the Kremlin

Lazanski started as a journalist in the Zagreb weekly “Polet”. He then wrote for the Croatian and Slovenian newspapers “Vjesnik”, “Danas” and “Start”. From the beginning he focused on the military and politics. While still in Zagreb he wrote for “Politika Ekspres” and “NIN”. In March 1991 he moved to Belgrade to “Politika”, in 1996 to “Večernje novosti” and again in 2001 to “Politika”, with which he stayed until 2019. From 2017 to 2019 he had a weekly radio and internet broadcast in Sputnik Srbija - "Na Nisanu Miroslava Lazanskog". In 2019 he was appointed Serbia's ambassador to Moscow to succeed Slavenko Terzić .

Miroslav Lazanski was one of the most famous journalists in the former Yugoslavia and later Serbia, who was best known as a military commentator. Through his contacts in the highest military leadership level of the Soviet Union , Warsaw Pact , NATO and the US military, and in particular the Yugoslav People's Army during the civil wars, he was also regularly quoted by Western news agencies. In 1982 Der Spiegel reported on the Slovenian men's magazine Start as the most revealing newspaper in Eastern Europe, in which it reported on the unusual report by Miroslav Lazanski on the Soviet military exercises at the time on the Hungarian-Yugoslav border. Lazanski's interview for Danas with the Soviet Defense Minister Viktor Kulikov in 1986 has been incorporated into analyzes by NATO, as has his analysis of the Soviet military maneuver Soyuz 1984.

He interviewed various marshals and defense ministers of the Soviet Union such as Dmitri Yasov (1988), Sergei Achromeev (1982) and Viktor Kulikov (1986) as well as the American commander and admiral of the US Pacific Fleet, Huntington Hardisty . In 2019 he was appointed Serbia's ambassador to Russia. Lazanski was also the only foreign journalist to have received an invitation from the North Korean leadership to the military parade on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the North Korean armed forces in Pyongyang in 2018 . As an embedded journalist, he reported from Iraq during the First Gulf War in 1991.

He also interviewed Nicolae Ceaușescu (1989), Vladimir Putin (2014), Aljaksandr Lukashenka (2014) and Baschar al-Assad (2015) , among others .

He received his accreditation from Vladimir Putin in the Moscow Kremlin on February 5, 2020.

Lazanski was the only Yugoslav journalist who conducted an interview in 1988 in the presence of three Soviet marshals. During his interview with Yasov in 1988, he had Achromeev and Kulikov join them.

Lazanski is known as a collector of militaria. Among other things, he has a helmet and other items from the French pilot of a Mirage F-2000 that was shot down over Pale in 1995, parts of the F-117 Nighthawk that was shot down over Syrmia in 1999, and an American military jeep from the Second World War, with which he regularly writes the Politika drove. After Lazanski was called to Moscow, the historic Dodge WC-51 was given a general overhaul by a Serbian military industry company.

Web links

Commons : Miroslav Lazanski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

credentials

  1. ↑ Sputnik Srbija Na Nisanu Miroslava Lanaznskog
  2. ↑ . E. AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIRARY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA TO RUSSIAN FEDERATION MR. MIROSLAV LAZANSKI
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel, October 4, 1982 Yugoslavia - A little cloudy
  4. ↑ [1]
  5. ^ The NATO-Warsaw Pact competition in the 1970s and 1980s: a revolution in military affairs?
  6. ↑ RTS, February 23, 2018 Lazanski u Severnoj Koreji
  7. ↑ Politika, February 25, 2018 Parada kao mirovna ponuda
  8. ↑ . E. AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIRARY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA TO RUSSIAN FEDERATION MR. MIROSLAV LAZANSKI
  9. ↑ Vecernje Novosti, February 5, 2020 PUTIN: Pozdravi za bratsku Srbiju, rešenje za Kosovo na osnovu Rezolucije 1244
  10. ↑ Sputnik Srbija February 25, 2020 Лазански ексклузивно: Зашто Москва 1991. није могла да подржи војни пуч у СФРЈ
  11. ↑ Politika, September 2, 2019 [ http://www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/437030/U-pragi-kao-u-limuzini ]
personal data
SURNAME Lazanski, Miroslav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav-Serbian journalist and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlovac , People's Republic of Croatia