{"id":64783,"date":"2026-08-31T12:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memopzk.org\/?post_type=news&p=64783"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:37:11","slug":"eco-activist-from-tuapse-arrested-over-alleged-links-to-crimson-wedge","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/memopzk.org\/en\/news\/eco-activist-from-tuapse-arrested-over-alleged-links-to-crimson-wedge\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco-activist from Tuapse arrested over alleged links to ‘Crimson Wedge’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Denis Matveev, an environmental activist from Tuapse, has been accused of involvement in the Crimson Wedge \u2014 Independent Kuban<\/em> movement, which the FSB<\/em> regards as a structural division of the Free Nations of PostRussia Forum<\/em>, according to 7\u00d77<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A criminal case was opened against Denis Matveev on charges of involvement in a terrorist organisation (Article 205.5 of the Russian Criminal Code). He was detained on 21 August and subsequently remanded in custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denis Matveev previously sat on the council of Environmental Watch on North Caucasus (EWNC) <\/em>and campaigned to protect the natural environment of Krasnodar Krai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2024, Russia’s Supreme Court designated the Free Nations of PostRussia Forum<\/em> and its 172 ‘structural divisions’, including the Crimson Wedge<\/em>, as a terrorist organisation. One of the movement’s founders was Yevgeny Bursanidis, a native of Sochi who has lived in Greece since 2011; he was sentenced<\/a> in absentia in March 2026. Frederick du Bois, another Sochi resident, was convicted in person in February 2026 and sentenced to 11 years in a penal colony over his involvement in the Crimson Wedge<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The movement’s founders advocate<\/a> Kuban’s independence from Russia and say it is oriented ‘first and foremost towards the region’s Ukrainian-Cossack element’.<\/em> The name refers to an unofficial nineteenth-century term: the Crimson Wedge (Pink Ukraine, lit. Raspberry Wedge) was used to describe the area of Kuban densely settled by Ukrainians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-64783","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","regions-krasnodar-krai","news-type-nashi-novosti-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nEco-activist from Tuapse arrested over alleged links to 'Crimson Wedge' - Political prisoners support. 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