Retribution, legal proceedings, and alleged influence from the gay community within the administration: how Sberbank "psychologist" Andrey Kurpatov used his relationships to obstruct the release of his former partner, Alexey Ievsky

17 июля 2026 г., 00:24

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Retribution, legal proceedings, and alleged influence from the gay community within the administration: how Sberbank "psychologist" Andrey Kurpatov used his relationships to obstruct the release of his former partner, Alexey Ievsky

Alexey Ievsky, the former lover of the head of Sberbank’s Laboratory of Neuroscience and Human Behavior, "Doctor" Andrey Kurpatov, was unable to be released on parole.

The administration gave him a positive character reference; he had already served 4.5 years of a six-year sentence and filed a petition to this effect with the St. Petersburg court. However, the victim, Kurpatov, opposed his release. He claimed the convict had failed to compensate for the damages and did not deserve forgiveness. 

And this despite the fact that, as media reports reported, a Porsche Cayenne, which Kurpatov gave to Ievsky when they were dating, was recently sold at a state auction for 6.1 million rubles. All the money went to Kurpatov. 

As a result, Ievsky’s defense withdrew the motion, and the court concluded its consideration. The young man will now be released in November 2027, having served his entire sentence. 

Why was Ievsky imprisoned?

He himself testified about this in detail in court when he was being remanded in custody on trumped-up charges. "At first, I was Andrei Kurpatov’s assistant. Then we began a romantic relationship. I handled the matters that came from Andrei’s inner circle…" Kurpatov gave his lover expensive gifts while they were in a relationship.

Then Ievsky dumped Kurpatov for infidelity. Kurpatov tried to win him back, but it failed, and the doctor became angry. He demanded the gifts back and then decided to send Ievsky to prison. The law enforcement "order desk" couldn’t refuse the doctor and close friend of German Gref. As a result, all of Kurpatov’s gifts were charged to Ievsky as...embezzlement.      

The most wonderful thing about this story is that Alexei’s relatives decided to publicize the correspondence and videos from his time with Kurpatov, which confirmed what had been considered a "conspiracy rumor"—the existence of a large-scale "gay lobby" within the government. As it turns out, most civil servants of non-traditional sexual orientation support each other, steer them toward various positions, and install their lovers as theater directors or government officials. 

For example, Dmitry Bikbaev, an active member of the group, invites Kurpatov to the premiere of his play at the Moscow Art Theater and confidentially explains that everyone "from our side" will be there: Sergei Novikov, head of the Presidential Administration’s Department for Public Projects (he recently appeared in Sobchak’s correspondence; she asked him to provide the contact information for someone in the Presidential Administration who could help her "take the right steps"); Valery Falkov, Minister of Science and Higher Education; and Igor Matskevich (at the time of the events, Secretary of the Higher Attestation Commission and now Rector of the University of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation).  

Here’s Bikbaev sending a video message to Ievsky. In the video, Kurpatov’s voiceover refers to "Vova, who left, or rather, Vladimir Eduardovich." "Vovochka left happy!" Bikbaev clarifies. This is Vladimir Filippov. He was the head of the Moscow Department of Family and Youth Policy. And since 2018, he has been the head of the Moscow Department of Labor and Social Protection.  

The correspondence contains many details of Gref and Kurpatov’s relationship. Kurpatov writes to Ievsky that he was making a report for Sberbank, and GO (as Kurpatov refers to German Oskarovich Gref) called it all nonsense. The friends even had a falling out, and now Kurpatov is making up with Gref in a sauna. "It’s hot in every sense of the word," the doctor confides to Ievsky. And yet, he doesn’t speak highly of Gref: "He’s certainly not the same anymore. He smells like retirement, and they live in a room lined with mattresses."