Young Lazanski began his primary education in the town of his birth, attending the Dragojla Jarnević Elementary School and completing five grades.
Following Karlovac, his father's job took the family to Trebinje where Lazanski completed final three grades of primary school before enrolling at the Jovan Dučić Gymnasium.
[3] Lazanski's first jobs in journalism were for the Zagreb-based Vjesnik daily newspaper as well as Danas [sh] and Start weekly news magazines.
Furthermore, he managed to obtain access to some of the leading global military figures of the period on both sides of the Cold War, including US Army general Bernard W. Rogers in October 1982 (who at the time performed the role of NATO'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, KGB chief general Vladimir Kryuchkov, Igor Radionov, Bennie L. Davis, Paul Sper, Crosbie E. Saint, Huntington Hardisty, Sir John Woodward, James Alan Abrahamson, Johan Jørgen Holst, Ferenc Kárpáti, Vasile Milea, Dobri Dzhurov, Afghani minister of defense Shahnawaz Tanai, Maher Abdul Rashid, Helmut Willmann, Guido Venturoni, Joe Modise, Georg Meiring, etc.
[9] He has guested on RTS's Upitnik,[10] Oko,[11] Srbija na vezi,[12] Tako stoji stvari,[13] TV lica,[14] B92's Kažiprst,[15] RTRS's Terorizam, svijet u strahu!,[16] RTV Pink's Jutarnji program, Dobro Jutro, Emisija Pravac, Teška reč, and HRT's Otvoreno.
[17] He was a frequent guest on TV Happy's popular show Ćirilica ("Cyrillic") hosted by Milomir Marić.