[2] In February 2005, Korotkov was renominated by President Vladimir Putin and confirmed for a second term by the local Parliament.

[3] Putin sacked Korotkov from his position on May 10, 2007 after he was charged with abuse of power, appointing the oblast's agriculture minister Alexander Nesterenko as acting governor.

[4] Putin later appointed Nikolai Kolesov as Amur oblast's governor.

[citation needed] President Dmitry Medvedev sacked Kolesov in October 2008 when Putin's appointee faced charges of illegally building a country house in a nature reserve.

[citation needed] A court in Blagoveshchensk on 27 December 2010 acquitted Korotkov of the charges he had faced of raising electricity tariffs to illegally bankroll the local soccer team, buying vehicles at inflated prices and paying 16 million roubles (about $620,000) to a mining company for a controlling stake that was allegedly never transferred to the oblast government.