'Countryman') was a Russian political group active in the 1990s that advocated the return of the Kuril Islands to Japan.
[3] The Soviet Union, which seized the Kuril Islands after the Allied victory over Japan in World War II, had just dissolved in 1991.
Lukyanov believed that Kunashir would have better economic prospects as part of Japan than post-Soviet Russia.
[2] Lukyanov petitioned the United Nations to transfer sovereignty over the Kuril Islands from Russia to Japan, to no avail.
The group faded into obscurity after the 1990s, and in 2019, Lukyanov was reportedly living as a recluse, having been socially ostracized by the other residents of Kunashir.