Kamchatka Krai
First-level administrative division of Russia
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| 2022 | Total fertility rate calculated at 1.63 children per woman. |
| 2022 | Kamchatka Krai recorded 2,992 births and 3,845 deaths, with a birth rate of 9.6 per 1,000 and a death rate of 12.3 per 1,000. |
| 2022 | Total fertility rate was measured at 1.63 children per woman in Kamchatka Krai. |
| 2021 | Life expectancy in Kamchatka Krai was reported at 68.09 years overall, with males averaging 63.76 years and females averaging 72.93 years. |
| 2021 | Valery Fedorovich Raenko's term as Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Kamchatka Krai ends |
| 2021 | Population census recorded 291,705 residents in Kamchatka Krai, with over half residing in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. |
| 2018 | Spanish police wiretappings were handed over to the FBI, with Spanish prosecutor José Grinda suggesting potential political implications, noting that 'Mr. Trump's son should be concerned'. |
| 2018 | Suddenly retired from his position as deputy head of the Central Bank of Russia. |
| December 18 2018 | A large meteor exploded above the Bering Sea at an altitude of 25.6 kilometers, releasing 49 kilotons of energy. |
| July 17 2018 | The New York Times reports on Torshin's canceled 2017 White House visit due to ongoing money laundering investigations. |
| May 16 2018 | The Senate Intelligence Committee releases a report suggesting the Kremlin used the NRA to access and assist Trump's campaign through Torshin and Butina. |
| April 2018 | The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control imposes sanctions on Torshin, freezing his U.S. assets and barring his entry into the United States. |
| January 2018 | Media reports emerge that Robert Mueller's Special Counsel is investigating Torshin's alleged links to Russian organized crime and potential money laundering to the NRA to benefit Trump's campaign. |
| 2017 | A planned White House visit by Torshin is canceled after a national security aide notes his ongoing investigation by Spanish authorities for money laundering. |
| 2017 | Population of Kamchatka Krai was documented as being under 1 million residents, indicating a relatively sparse population for this administrative region in Russia. |
| 2016 | Torshin attends his last NRA annual meeting in this year, becoming a subject of the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. elections. |
| 2016 | A Spanish investigation connected Torshin to the Taganskaya Gang, alleging his involvement in money laundering through banks and real estate in Spain. Spanish police concluded that Torshin stood higher in the criminal group's structure than Romanov. |
| May 2016 | Alexander Romanov, the leader of the Taganskaya Gang, was arrested in Spain and sentenced to four years in prison for illegal transactions. |
| 2015 | Appointed as deputy head of the Central Bank of Russia. |
| 2015 | Torshin left the Federation Council. |
| August 7 2015 | Release of the film Harbinger Down, which follows graduate students studying the effects of global warming on beluga whales in the Bering Sea. |
| 2014 | Torshin and Butina attend the NRA annual meeting as special guests of former NRA president David Keene. |
| 2013 | Spanish police planned to arrest Torshin during a visit to Mallorca for a friend's birthday party, but he did not arrive. Police speculated he might have been tipped off by Russian authorities. |
| 2012 | Torshin begins meeting with every NRA president, following an invitation from then-NRA President David Keene after the 2011 meeting. |
| 2012 | Conclusion of a 33-year period of sea ice extent monitoring in the Bering Sea, which showed modest sea ice growth, differing from the significant summer sea ice loss observed in the Arctic Ocean. |
| 2012 | A comprehensive religious demographics survey was conducted in Kamchatka Krai, revealing detailed religious affiliations of the population, including percentages of Orthodox Christians, other Christian denominations, native faiths, and other religious groups. |
| 2011 | Aleksandr Torshin begins attending NRA annual meetings in the United States, establishing a cooperative relationship with the NRA through Maria Butina, who founded a Russian gun rights organization in this year. |
| 2011 | Valery Fedorovich Raenko succeeds Boris Aleksandrovich Nevzorov as Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Kamchatka Krai |
| September 21 2011 | Valentina Matviyenko from the United Russia Party assumed her responsibilities as Federation Council chairman, replacing Torshin as acting chairman. |
| May 19 2011 | Torshin became the acting chairman of the Federation Council after Sergey Mironov was ousted by the majority United Russia party. |
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