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The last time he was found in this column, Miroslav Lazanski asked the editorial board of Danas to publish some “small corrections” that slipped on the author “of course not from malice, but from his youth and journalistic inexperience.
Photo: FoNet / Kostadin KamenovIt is this tendency to reply, deny, and submit corrections that is why it was found again in this column.
This time, Miroslav Lazanski, a longtime military-political commentator and recently Serbian ambassador to Russia, did not resist denying the sketch for the humorous show PLjiŽ.
“Gentlemen, I laughed at these forms too, but for the truth’s sake, the Serbian embassy in Moscow has never been without electricity and heat. Because heating and electricity in Moscow are a trifle, “among other things, Lazanski wrote on Mićko Ljubičić’s YouTube channel, denying the obvious metaphor for the cooling of relations between Serbia and Russia.
Lazanski began his journalistic career in Polet de Zagreb and began to deal with military issues in Vjesnik. After that, he wrote for Danas, NIN and Politika Express from Zagreb. In the early 1990s, she moved to Politika.
In his career, as he himself pointed out, “he interviewed two supreme commanders of NATO, three marshals of the USSR, chiefs of the KGB, KHAD, some fifty defense ministers and the chief of staff of the world armies.”
He reported on the armed conflicts in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq, Iran, Somalia …
On YouTube, the same one where Lazanski denied PLjiŽ’s sketch, there is still a clip from the program in which Lazanski defends the army’s decision not to provide the media with information on the number of pilots and flight hours in front of former information commissioner Rodoljub Sabic.
In the middle of the discussion, Sabic took a copy of the text from his jacket in which exactly that data is presented, and the author of the text was none other than Lazanski himself.
In a denial that is Danas’ task, Lazanski characterized this case as a “classic wait and see”, showing that neither Sabic nor the author of the text understand the difference between the total annual number of flight hours and the number of hours flight on certain types of aircraft.
He also denied that a few years ago, at a reception at the Defense Ministry, he got into a controversy with an Insider journalist, who tried to ask a question to then-Minister Zoran Djordjevic.
As he explained, he was just trying to help his colleague understand the procedures related to arms exports.
He did not deny that he was born on September 18, 1950 in Karlovac and that he graduated from Zagreb Law School.
He denied that his most famous family member was his aunt, Biljana Plavšić. More famous than her is her great-grandfather Dionisija Plavšić from Visoko, the richest Serb in central Bosnia until 1941.
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