2008 in Georgia (country)

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See also:	Other events of 2008 List of years in Georgia (country)

Incumbents[edit]

• President of Georgia: Nino Burjanadze (acting; November 25, 2007)-January 20, 2008; Mikheil Saakashvili (January 20, 2008 – 17, November 2013)
• 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[edit]

• January 5 – 2008 Georgian presidential election: Mikheil Saakashvili is re-elected as President of Georgia for his second term.
• January 5 – A majority of voters favor to bring 2008 Georgian legislative election 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[edit]

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

Deaths[edit]

• January 6 – Guram Lortkipanidze, film actor (born 1930).
• January 9 - Mikheil Kavtaradze, formerly an anti-Soviet émigré 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, sculptor (born 1932).
• February 13 - Badri Patarkatsishvili, tycoon and politician (born 1955)
• March 2 – Sofiko Chiaureli, theatre and film actress (born 1937)
• March 11 – Anna Kalandadze, poet (born 1924)
• May 24 – Bukhuti Gurgenidze, Georgian chess grandmaster (born 1933)
• August 7 – Vakhushti Kotetishvili, Iranist and folklorist (born 1935)

See also[edit]

• List of '2008 in' articles