Janis Laizans

Journalist, producer, cameraman. For Reuters but often someone else

[Marko Djurica @markodjurica]

The story I worked last week at the settlement of Kapisillit in Greenland with Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Janis Laizans.
Photo editing by Maye-E Wong and Marta Montaña

[Reuters @Reuters]

As US President Donald Trump talks of buying Greenland and Denmark asserts its legal sovereignty, Inuit residents assert an age-old law that says people can own houses, but not the land beneath them https://t.co/fkNAvUkXgL

[polina nikolskaya @reporter_polina]

My team and I spent 2 weeks in Moldova reporting ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary elections. We found how Russia has persistently tried to influence voters through the Orthodox Church 1/8
w/ @ChristianLowe4 @zverev_live
@JanisLaizans @monus_marton
https://t.co/GZbXTeUL4R

[Janis Laizans @JanisLaizans]

On the Baltic Sea, Estonian navy prepared to stop vessels https://t.co/PEZS5ZdKAp

[Reuters @Reuters]

Issam Abdallah, a Reuters videographer was killed while working in southern Lebanon on Friday. Issam was part of a Reuters crew in southern Lebanon who was providing a live video signal https://t.co/WZT1GTFUYx

[Janis Laizans @JanisLaizans]

Some stories are difficult to explain

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'I really should watch these clips before letting you watch them...'

Rory Smith struggles to keep his composure reporting on deer impersonators in a stag calling tournament.

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[Reuters @Reuters]

NATO has deployed advanced weaponry before alliance leaders meet this week in Vilnius to tackle a wide range of topics, including divisions over Ukraine's membership bid https://t.co/b7qFMRtnN7

[Reuters @Reuters]

NATO has turned Vilnius into a fortress defended by advanced weaponry to protect President Joe Biden and other alliance leaders meeting next week, only a few miles away from Lithuania's razor-wire-topped border fence with Russian ally Belarus https://t.co/P1v1eaZeeN

[Reuters @Reuters]

High above a railway bridge spanning a foaming river just outside the Arctic Circle, Finnish construction workers hammer away at a project that will smooth the connections from NATO's Atlantic coastline in Norway to its new border with Russia https://t.co/3kEVnEJLa0

[Reuters @Reuters]

Estonia becomes first central European country to allow same-sex marriage https://t.co/bR11fqyQ3B

[Reuters @Reuters]

Estonia and Latvia look to purchase mid-range air defence from Germany https://t.co/4zcl0GFYLb

[Reuters @Reuters]

A NATO-led exercise simulated a wide-ranging cyber attack on the fictional island nation of 'Berylia' from its neighbor 'Crimsonia.' Critical infrastructure, communications networks, and financial systems were targeted in the exercise

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Latvia sends cars seized from drunk drivers to help Ukraine https://t.co/yiNZKcjkYD

[Reuters @Reuters]

Latvia began seizing cars from heavily drunk drivers this year, and as hundreds of vehicles began overfilling impound lots, decided to send them to Ukrainian military and hospitals https://t.co/RA2G30EsyN

[Janis Laizans @JanisLaizans]

Picture and it’s story

[Reuters @Reuters]

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
A photograph of Iryna Filkina’s painted nails helped her family identify the 52-year-old, who was killed in the first days of the war in Ukraine. One year in, the image remains a potent symbol of the horrors of the Russian invasion https://t.co/ZxUpFOlvM3

[Reuters @Reuters]

Iryna Filkina was killed in the first days of the war in Ukraine. Filkina was among the dead left untended on the side of the road and photographs taken of her muddy upturned hand, with bright red fingernails, became a potent symbol of civilian suffering https://t.co/RmFVia5Q0R

[Janis Laizans @JanisLaizans]

Another marathon completed 🏃‍♂️

[Reuters @Reuters]

It's a hot competition at the European Sauna Marathon in Estonia, but it's far from the stereotypical towel-clad Baltic pastime, this competition is carnival-costumed sauna-seeking fun

[Reuters @Reuters]

It's a hot competition at the European Sauna Marathon in Estonia, but it's far from the stereotypical towel-clad Baltic pastime, this competition is carnival-costumed sauna-seeking fun

[Reuters @Reuters]

Andrei Medvedev, a former commander of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, apologized for fighting in Ukraine, saying the brutality he witnessed there ultimately pushed him to defect and flee to Norway https://t.co/oxk2eOk4mt

[Gwladys Fouché @gfouche]

A former commander of Russia's Wagner mercenary group told Reuters he wanted to apologise for fighting in Ukraine and was speaking out to bring the perpetrators of atrocities in the conflict to justice. By @ReutersNerijusA @JanisLaizans and me. https://t.co/6KZQKlHLSD