Furgal was removed from office by President Vladimir Putin on 20 July, and fellow LDPR member Mikhail Degtyarev was appointed as acting Governor.

Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev also, allegedly, had poor relations with Governor Furgal for his lack of cooperation and support of United Russia.

[5] In March 2019 former Governor of Khabarovsk Krai (1991-2009) Viktor Ishayev was arrested in Moscow, he was later charged with fraud during his tenure as vice president of Rosneft.

[7] In April 2019 Deputy Chairman of the Investigative Committee Igor Krasnov reopened cases regarding killings of several businessmen in Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast committed during 2004 and 2005.

[9] Law enforcement officials also carried out searches and seized documents in the offices of "Torex" group (owned by Nikolay Mistryukov and Furgal's wife Larisa Starodubova), Deputy Chairman of the Government Yury Zolochevsky and Minister of Industry Sergey Denisenko.

[12] Alongside Governor Furgal, four of his associates were detained: Khabarovsk Krai Legislative Duma members Dmitry Kozlov and Sergey Kuznetsov, entrepreneurs Nikolay Shukhov and Yevgeny Averyanov.

[17] Mikhail Degtyarev quickly draw an ire from Furgal's supporters for his denouncement of protest movement,[18] firings of Krai Government officials[19] and appointment of Moscow and Samara natives to his administration.

His nearest challenger, TV host Marina Kim (SR-ZP) scored more than 25% of the vote receiving the best statewide result for A Just Russia candidate in history of Khabarovsk Krai.

On 20 September Governor-elect Mikhail Degtyarev announced that he would nominate his deputy Andrey Bazilevsky as next Senator from Khabarovsk Krai, replacing incumbent Yelena Greshnyakova.