 In April and June 2005, deputies of the regional Legislative Assembly called on him to resign ahead of schedule and said that they would not approve him for a second term if he was nominated, even under threat of dissolution.August 8, 2005 and the former deputy mayor of Moscow Valery Shantsev was unanimously confirmed as the new governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.He is married and has three children.