Jan Ciechanowicz

Jan Ciechanowicz [jan t͡ɕɛɣanɔvit͡ʂ] (Lithuanian: Ivanas Tichonovičius, Janas Ciechanowiczius, Janas Ciechanovičius; Russian: Иван Станиславович Тихонович; 2 July 1946 – 10 January 2022) was a Polish Lithuanian politician who was an ethnic Polish member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1989–1991).

[2] According to Ciechanowicz, he discussed the issue with Mikhail Gorbachev in late May or early June 1989 during the first session of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union.

In addition to this, Ciechanowicz claims to have discussed the issue with Nursultan Nazarbayev and Islam Karimov, and to have promoted it in the United States Congress, where he attended a meeting of one of the committees at the invitation of Congressmen John Dingell and Konjorski (probably Paul Kanjorski), but had support only from a section of the Polish press in the United States.

[5][6][7] Jan Ciechanowicz, in 1992, made a pledge to the Prosecutor General's Office of Lithuania that he would no longer engage in political activity.

Then, due to his inability to get a job in Lithuania, he settled in Poland, retaining his Lithuanian citizenship.