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2008 in Georgia (country)
Years in Georgia (country):
2005 2006
2007
2008
2009 2010
2011
Centuries
:
20th Century
·
21st century
·
22nd century
Decades
:
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
2030s
Years
:
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Contents
1
Incumbents
2
Events
3
Scheduled
4
Deaths
5
See also
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