2015 in Georgia (country)
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The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Georgia.
Incumbents
National
- President: Giorgi Margvelashvili (November 17, 2013 – present)
- Prime Minister: Irakli Garibashvili (November 20, 2013 – present)
- Chairperson of Parliament: David Usupashvili (October 21, 2012 – present)
Autonomous republics
Adjara
- Chairman of the Government: Archil Khabadze (October 30, 2012 – present)
- Chairman of the Supreme Council: Avtandil Beridze (October 28, 2012 – present)
Abkhazia
- Chairman of Government (-in-exile): Vakhtang Kolbaia (acting; April 8, 2013 – present)
- Chairman of the Supreme Council (-in-exile): Elguja Gvazava (March 20, 2009 – present)
Disputed territories
Abkhazia
- President: Raul Khadjimba (September 25, 2014 – present)
- Prime Minister: Beslan Butba (September 29, 2014 – present)
- Chairman of People's Assembly: Valeri Bganba (April 3, 2012 – present)
South Ossetia
- President: Leonid Tibilov (April 19, 2012 – present)
- Prime Minister: Domenty Kulumbegov (January 20, 2014 – present)
- Chairman of Parliament: Anatoliy Bibilov (June 23, 2014 – present)
Events
January
- 11 January – Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili joins world leaders in the Paris "unity rally" in solidarity of France after the Charlie Hebdo shooting.[1]
- 20 January – Iuri Vazagashvili, a campaigner for an investigation of the death of his 22-year-old son in a controversial police operation in Tbilisi in 2006, dies in an explosion while visiting his son's grave. Police launches an investigation on suspicion of premeditated murder.[2]
- 23 January – Alexander Tchikaidze, Georgia's Interior Minister, resigns, citing accusations of his being involved in "protecting" the police officers participating in an operation, in 2006, which killed two young men, including Zurab Vazagashvili, whose father died in an explosion on 20 January 2015.[3]
- 26 January – Tchikaidze is succeeded as Minister of Internal Affairs by Vakhtang Gomelauri, his deputy and former security detail of the ex-Primer Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili.[4]
February
- 2 February – Forty six non-governmental organizations release a joint statement, condemning ex-Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili's recent remarks about his plans to look into activities of several civil society personalities as "threatening" and alluding to Ivanishvili as "an informal ruler of the state".[5]
- 2 February – Five former and six current Interior Ministry officers are arrested in connection to the 2006 police operation in which two young men, Zurab Vazagashvili and Aleksandre Khubulov, were shot to death in what the prosecution claims was a "premeditated murder", planned and executed by Irakli Pirtskhalava, then-deputy chief of criminal police, for the sake of personal revenge.[6]
- 8 February – Chief Prosecutor's Office declares the high-profile murder of Zurab Vazagashvili solved as police arrests a policeman suspected of planting a hand grenade that killed Vazagashvili at his son's grave.[7]
- 13 February – Georgia's former President Mikheil Saakashvili is appointed by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko as head of the International Advisory Council on Reforms.[8]
- 16 February – Davit Sakvarelidze, a member of the Parliament of Georgia from the opposition United National Movement party, is appointed as Deputy General Prosecutor of Ukraine.[9]
Scheduled events
- 19–21 May – Nina Sublatti will represent Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015.
- 25 July–1 August – 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival will be hosted in Tbilisi.
- 11 August – 2015 UEFA Super Cup will be held in Tbilisi.
- 2015 – Georgia will join the NATO Response Force.[10]
- 2015 – Joint Georgia-NATO "training and evaluation center" will be established in Georgia.[11]
Death
- 1 January – Polikarpe Khubutia, 90, Georgian (Mingrelian) folk singer.[12]
- 19 January – Tadeoz (Mirian Ioramashvili), 68, Georgian Orthodox hierarch, the titular Metropolitan Bishop of Marabda.[13]
- 30 January – Tamaz Avdaliani, 50, Georgian politician, the incumbent member of the Parliament of Georgia (GDDG).[14]
- 11 February – Nodar Tsuleiskiri, 82, Georgian writer and Minister of Education (1990–91).[15]
- 1 March – Guram Minashvili, 79, Georgian basketball player.
- 9 March – Otar Koberidze, 90, Georgian actor and film director.
- 11 April – Kote Tolordava, 35, Georgian theatre and film actor.
References
- ↑ "Georgian PM will join Charlie Hebdo rally in Paris". Agenda.ge. 10 January 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
- ↑ "Blast Kills Man at His Son’s Grave". Civil Georgia. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
- ↑ Kirtzkhalia, Nana (23 January 2015). "Georgian PM to accept interior minister’s resignation". Trend News Agency. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ↑ "New Interior Minister Appointed". Civil Georgia. 26 January 2015. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
- ↑ "NGOs Slam ‘Informal Ruler’ Ivanishvili’s 'Threatening' Remarks". Civil Georgia. 2 February 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ↑ "11 Former and Current Police Officers Arrested in Zurab Vazagashvili Case". Civil Georgia. 2 February 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ↑ "Suspect in Yuri Vazagashvili Murder Arrested". Civil Georgia. 8 February 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- ↑ "Saakashvili Appointed as Head of Ukraine’s Int’l Advisory Council on Reforms". Civil Georgia. 13 February 2015. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ↑ "Georgian MP from UNM Appointed as Ukraine’s Deputy Chief Prosecutor". Civil Georgia. 16 February 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
- ↑ "Rasmussen: NATO Accepted Georgia's Offer to Join Response Force". Civil Georgia. 10 October 2013. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
- ↑ "NATO Deputy Secretary General on Planned Training Center in Georgia". Civil Georgia. 30 January 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ↑ "პოლიკარპე ხუბულავა [Polikarpe Khubulava]". Intermedia. 6 January 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "მიტროპოლიტი თადეოზი გარდაიცვალა [Metropolitan Bishop Tadeoz dies]". reportiori.ge (in Georgian). 19 January 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "პარლამენტის წევრი თამაზ ავდალიანი მძიმე ავადმყოფობის შედეგად გარდაიცვალა [The Member of Parliament Tamaz Avdaliani dies after a severe illness]". Tabula (in Georgian). 30 January 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "ეროვნული მოძრაობის წევრი და კულტურის ყოფილი მინისტრი ნოდარ წულეისკირი გარდაიცვალა". ExpressNews (in Georgian). 12 February 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
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