Acting Governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Mikhail Degtyarev asked the presidential administration (AP) to find a replacement for this post before the gubernatorial elections due to the high anti-rating, but the Kremlin does not have an alternative candidate, Open Media (OM) reports , citing anonymous sources. close to the AP, and an interlocutor in the LDPR.

Degtyarev himself realizes that he has no chance of winning the elections in September because he “could not come to an agreement with the local elite.” The Kremlin insists that Degtyarev win the elections “at any cost,” OM reports, citing sources close to the AP. According to closed sociological surveys, the publication writes, Degtyarev’s rating is 31%, and his anti-rating is 40%.

Another source close to the Kremlin told OM that even replacing the interim will not help improve the situation in the Khabarovsk Territory, since in the region there is “ a strong rejection of everything that is proposed by Moscow.” According to him, political strategist Alexey Vasiliev, who in 2017 was responsible for the election of United Russia member Artur Parfenchikov as head of Karelia, was sent to the region.

Degtyarev was appointed acting governor of the Khabarovsk Territory on July 20, 2020, after the arrest of ex-governor Sergei Furgal and his associates. On September 2, 2020, the Investigative Committee charged Furgal with organizing the murder of businessman Evgeniy Zori. Zorya died in 2004, then Furgal was a suspect in the case, but later the criminal prosecution was dropped.

After the arrest of the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, mass protests continued in the region for several months. Local residents demanded the release of Furgal or an open trial of him in the Khabarovsk Territory. Now Furgal is in a pre-trial detention center in Moscow.

“Open Media”: Degtyarev asked the Kremlin to remove him from the post of governor of the Khabarovsk Territory