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 migre 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