2008 in Georgia (country)

2008
in
Georgia (country)

Decades:
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • 2000s
  • 2010s
  • 2020s
See also:Other events of 2008
List of years in Georgia (country)

Incumbents

Events

  • 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

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

Deaths

  • 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

  • List of '2008 in' articles
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