Leonid Viktorovich Korotkov (russian: Леонид Викторович Коротков, born January 19, 1965) was the

governor A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...

Amur Oblast Amur Oblast ( rus, Аму́рская о́бласть, r=Amurskaya oblast, p=ɐˈmurskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya Rivers in the Russian Far East. The administrat ...

in the

Russian Far East The Russian Far East (russian: Дальний Восток России, r=Dal'niy Vostok Rossii, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent; and is admin ...

. He was born in

Zavitinsk Zavitinsk (russian: Завити́нск) is a town and the administrative center of Zavitinsky District in Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Zavitinsk serves ...

. He graduated from Far Eastern University in 1987.Governor of Amur Oblast
Government of Amur Oblast website. He was a member of the Communist Party of Russia. He became governor in 2001, when he defeated the incumbent Anatoly Belonogov in a runoff. He had been a distant second with only 20% of the vote in the first round, but the incumbent got less than 50% of the vote so Korotkov could participate in the runoff, which he narrowly won.

Political activity

In February 2005, Korotkov was renominated by President

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and confirmed for a second term by the local Parliament. He was one of the first governors to be elected in this way, as a law abolishing direct election of governors and presidents of the Russian republics had just taken effect. 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. Putin later appointed Nikolai Kolesov as Amur oblast's governor. President

Dmitry Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev ( rus, links=no, Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪdˈvʲedʲɪf; born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has been serving as the dep ...

sacked Kolesov in October 2008 when Putin's appointee faced charges of illegally building a country house in a nature reserve. 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.''Court acquits ex-governor'', RIA Novosti, 27 December 2010
Accessed: 6 April 2011.

References

1965 births Living people People from Amur Oblast Communist Party of the Russian Federation members Governors of Amur Oblast Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation alumni Far Eastern Federal University alumni Members of the Federation Council of Russia (1994–1996) Second convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation) Third convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation) {{Russia-politician-stub