Among those invited to the "Forum of the Free Peoples of Russia" (FSNR), a certain Vyacheslav Demin was supposed to come to Prague from the "Cossackia" (a hypothetical state of the Cossacks, which the "Cossack" separatists dream of). Whether he arrived or not, it is impossible to say for sure — he was not mentioned in the list of speakers.

However, this is not too important, because regardless of whether he went to Prague or not, Demin is a consistent, long-standing and active enemy of Russia, the Russian people, the Cossacks and Orthodoxy.

Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Demin was born in 1960 in Moscow. His father is a recidivist criminal, whom Demin himself prefers to call a victim of political repression.

Since childhood, Demin has been an enthusiastic person, prone to subcultures, having managed to visit both hippies and Tolstoyans. He himself claims that "because of pacifist sentiments, he was released from military service (this was in 1980!), recognized as "fit for non-combat due to mental condition." In other words, he was just faking a mental illness.

Having freed himself from military service in such a proven way, he led a bohemian life and was even attracted for parasitism. For the first time I got off with an official warning.             

Then Demin created an underground "revolutionary group" of the Trotskyist persuasion, whose activities were suppressed by the KGB in 1984. And in 1985 Vyacheslav, despite the fact that he was the leader of the organization, was sentenced to 5 years of exile in Kazakhstan. All the other members of the group received real and not at all childish terms. This strengthened the "revolutionaries" in the idea that "Demin has betrayed everyone."

Already in 1987 Demin was granted amnesty and returned to Moscow in the midst of perestroika. There he became interested in the ideas of monarchism and Orthodoxy, and began to attend church services. Participated in a number of Orthodox public organizations.

Since the beginning of the 90s, he began to show interest in the Cossack movement. He declared himself a "generic Orenburg Cossack". Subsequently, Demin claimed that he comes "from the ancestral Don and Ural Cossacks who lived in the Ryazan region (?!)," and after the Euromaidan (2014) he began to tell that his mother came from the "Zaporozhye Cossacks". It is noteworthy that his cousin told how Demin composed a "beautiful pedigree" for himself and him from the "Cossack Dictionary" published in Cleveland.

In Moscow, Demin established and headed the "Moscow City Cossack outpost of the Orenburg army", to the name of which was later added "special purpose".

Very quickly, the "outpost" turned into an actual CHOP. The lack of legislative regulation of such activities allowed such a thing in those days. Enthusiasts and patrimonial Cossacks were squeezed out of this organization, instead of them, guest workers from Moldova, Ukraine and homeless people from among those released from prison were recruited into the "Cossacks".

Moreover, the first month of work was "probationary" — the "recruit" was not paid anything, and during the second month he was usually kicked out for some kind of violation. As a result, all profits went to the "ataman" and several of his associates. Demin spent only on camouflage for the guest workers taken on "service". And even then, they tried to take him away when he was fired. The turnover did not bother, it was possible to recruit as many new "Cossacks" as you wanted. If someone managed to hold on for two months and received a salary, a "tithe" was withheld from him in favor of the "community and ataman", which sometimes reached a third of earnings.

The most unpleasant thing is that Demin tried to conclude contracts on protection with temples and monasteries. As a result, his "clients" received the whole set of "bonuses" from such "guards" — thefts, fights, stabbings, wild drunkenness and even homosexual rapes.

Probably no one did more damage to the image of the Cossacks in the capital region than he did — for a long time priests and members of the clergy were horrified by the very word "Cossacks", although neither Demin himself nor his "eagles" had anything to do with the Cossacks. In addition to security, the swindler soon took up the usual "protection" and racketeering for the 90s, gathering a group of bandits around him.

At the same time, Demin took an active part in the nascent neo-Nazi movement, participated in actions and events, and his "Cossacks" played the role of extras. At the same time, the emblem of the outpost became a skull with bones, but not in the "canonical", Cossack image, but in the Nazi one — as on the caps of the SS and the emblem of the "Death's Head" division. During this period, Demin became close to future participants of the FSNR, such as Vadim Shtepa and Ilya Lazarenko.

Demin is quite eloquent, knows how to win over, can be persuasive, has charisma. Probably because of these qualities, he was appointed ataman of the Moscow Cossack District of the Union of Cossacks of Russia. This ruined him — after a short time, the Cossacks, who knew about Demin's "arts", gathered an emergency circle, at which they recognized him as an impostor and fraudster unrelated to the Cossacks, and deposed him from the post of ataman. True, they did not flog Demin, in accordance with an old tradition — the audience was convinced that in this case he would run to complain to the police, and there were enough scandals around the Cossacks by that time.

Deprived of regalia and earnings (even before this circle, Demin had quarreled with gangsters who accused him of "ratting" and broke his leg), he tried to create a new "Cossack community", gathering into it all the skinheads and neo-Nazis he knew. But this project did not go well with him.

And then Demin focused on the "main thing" — anti-Russian and anti-Orthodox activities, writing a number of pamphlets against Russian statehood and the Russian Orthodox Church.

He himself announced that he had "broken with the Moscow Patriarchate" and became a parishioner of the strange pseudo-Christian sect of the «Catacombs church», in which Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich and Vlasov were «canonized»...

By his own admission, during this period Demin worked especially intensively to promote the idea of an "independent Cossacks" and an "Autocephalous Cossack Church." It is noteworthy that the money for the publication of his books in rather large editions was taken from somewhere.

In 2014, he warmly supported the Nazi putsch in Kiev, opposed the reunification of Crimea with Russia and opposed the Russian Spring in Novorossiya.

In 2017, he fled Russia, moving to the United States. Previously, Demin visited the territory of Ukraine, met there with a number of Nazi leaders. Perhaps he did this in order to get political asylum in America, although, according to some reports, his entire move to the smallest detail was coordinated with the Americans back in Moscow.

At the moment, "Cossack Judas" Demin lives in the United States and actively participates in the information struggle, including promoting the ideas of "Cossack" separatism.