2002 in Georgia (country)

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List of years in Georgia (country)

Incumbents

Events
  • January 15 – Georgian police forces under the personal supervision of Interior Minister Koba Narchemashvili launch the first phase of anti-criminal operation in the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia's border with Chechnya.
  • March 2 – Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia holds parliamentary election, not recognized by the international community as legal.
  • April 2 – Georgia agrees to withdraw its Defense Ministry troops from Kodori Gorge, the only part of Abkhazia more or less under the control of Georgia.
  • April 25 – The 4.8 mb Tbilisi earthquake shook the area with a maximum MSK intensity of VII–VIII (Very strong – Damaging), causing 5–6 deaths and 52–70 injuries. Damage was estimated at $160–350 million.
  • May 27 – The United States-sponsored Train-and-Equip program launched in the Georgian armed forces.
  • June 2 – Georgia holds the second local self-governance elections.
  • August 19 – President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze announces the start of an all-out "anti-criminal and counterterrorist operation" in the Pankisi Gorge.
  • August 23 – Russian fighter jets bomb the Georgian villages bordering Chechnya, killing one and injuring several civilians; the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Observers Mission to Georgia officially confirms the fact, but the Russian authorities reject it.
  • October 14 – President Shevardnadze and Patriarch of Georgia Ilia II sign a constitutional agreement between the state and the Georgian Orthodox Church at the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta.
  • November 22 – President Shevardnadze makes an official bid for NATO accession at the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council session in Prague.
  • December 3 – Georgia ratifies the construction of the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline.

Deaths
  • February 25 – Nugzar Sajaia, Georgian National Security Council secretary (born 1942); suicide.
  • May 19 – Otar Lordkipanidze, archaeologist and anthropologist (born 1930), natural causes.
  • December 19 – Kote Makharadze, a popular actor and sportscaster (born 1925); cerebrovascular disease.
  • November 20 – Kakhi Asatiani, businessman and former soccer star (born 1947); assassinated.

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