2008 in Georgia (country)

2008 in Georgia (country)

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Incumbents

*President of Georgia: Nino Burjanadze (acting; November 25, 2007)-January 20 2008; Mikheil Saakashvili (January 20 2008-present)
*Prime Minister: Lado Gurgenidze (since November 22 2007)
*Chairperson of the Parliament: Mikheil Machavariani (acting; since November 25, 2007); Nino Burjanadze (January 20 2008-June 7 2008), David Bakradze (June 7 2008-present)

Events

*January 5 – Georgian presidential election, 2008: Mikheil Saakashvili is re-elected as President of Georgia for his second term.
*January 5 – A majority of voters favor to bring Georgian legislative election, 2008 to spring 2008 in a binding referendum.
*January 5 – A majority of voters express their support to Georgia's bid to join NATO in a non-binding referendum.
*January 31 - The incoming Cabinet of Georgia wins a vote of confidence in the Parliament of Georgia.
*April 20 – A crisis in relations with Russia deepens after a Russian fighter jet downs a Georgian unmanned unarmed aerial vehicle over Abkhazia.
*May 21 – Georgia holds a parliamentary election won by Saakashvili’s United National Movement.
*May 24 – Georgian singer Diana Gurtskaya finishes 11th at the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008.

Scheduled

*October 4 – Elections to the Supreme Council of Adjara.

Deaths

*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 – Prince Jorge de Bagration, the Head of the Royal 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

*List of '2008 in' articles


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