- 2008 in Georgia (country)
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in?= in Georgia (country)
cp=20th Century
c=21st century
cf=22nd centuryyp1=2005
yp2=2006
yp3=2007
year=2008
ya1=2009
ya2=2010
ya3=2011
dp3=1970s
dp2=1980s
dp1=1990s
d=2000s
da=0
dn1=2010s
dn2=2020s
dn3=2030sIncumbents
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President of Georgia :Nino Burjanadze (acting;November 25 ,2007 )-January 20 2008 ;Mikheil Saakashvili (January 20 2008 -present)
*Prime Minister:Lado Gurgenidze (sinceNovember 22 2007 )
*Chairperson of the Parliament:Mikheil Machavariani (acting; sinceNovember 25 ,2007 ); Nino Burjanadze (January 20 2008 -June 7 2008 ),David Bakradze (June 7 2008 -present)Events
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January 5 –Georgian presidential election, 2008 :Mikheil Saakashvili is re-elected asPresident of Georgia for his second term.
*January 5 – A majority of voters favor to bringGeorgian legislative election, 2008 to spring 2008 in a binding referendum.
*January 5 – A majority of voters express their support to Georgia's bid to joinNATO in a non-binding referendum.
*January 31 - The incomingCabinet of Georgia wins a vote of confidence in the Parliament of Georgia.
*April 20 – A crisis in relations withRussia deepens after a Russian fighter jet downs a Georgian unmanned unarmed aerial vehicle overAbkhazia .
*May 21 – Georgia holds a parliamentary election won by Saakashvili’sUnited National Movement .
*May 24 – Georgian singerDiana Gurtskaya finishes 11th at the final of theEurovision Song Contest 2008 .Scheduled
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October 4 – Elections to the Supreme Council ofAdjara .Deaths
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January 6 –Guram Lortkipanidze , a popular movie actor (born 1930).
*January 9 - Mikheil Kavtaradze, formerly an anti-Soviet émigre politician and author (born 1907).
*January 16 – PrinceJorge de Bagration , the Head of theRoyal House of Georgia and claimant to the throne of Georgia (born 1944).
*February 2 -Givi Mizandari , a notable sculptor (born 1932).
*February 13 -Badri Patarkatsishvili , a tycoon and politician (born 1955)
*March 2 –Sofiko Chiaureli , a theatre and movie actress (born 1937)
*March 11 –Anna Kalandadze , a poetess (born 1924)
*May 24 –Bukhuti Gurgenidze , Georgian chess grandmaster (born 1933)
*August 7 –Vakhushti Kotetishvili , an Iranist and folklorist (born 1935)See also
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