2011 in Georgia (country)

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{{Year in Georgia|2011}}

Events in the year 2011 in Georgia.

Incumbents

Events

  • 4 April - Georgian Airways Flight 834, chartered by the United Nations, crashes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo while trying to land in N'djili Airport in Kinshasa.{{cite news |date=4 April 2011 |title=Fatal UN plane crash at DR Congo's Kinshasa airport |newspaper=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12962210 |accessdate=4 April 2011}}
  • 21 May - Anti-government protests against President Saakashvili begin in Tbilisi{{Cite news |last=Antidze |first=Margarita |date=2011-05-24 |title=Georgian protests, TV building attacked |url=http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE74K1Z620110521 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110625100945/http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE74K1Z620110521 |archive-date=2011-06-25 |access-date=2023-02-22 |work=Reuters}}
  • 13 November - 2011 South Ossetian referendum
  • 13 November - 2011 South Ossetian presidential election{{cite web |date=13 November 2011 |title=Ruo.su |script-title=ru:В Южной Осетии начались выборы президента |url=http://cik.ruo.su/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=182:2011-11-13-07-32-58&catid=43:-2011&Itemid=66 |access-date=13 November 2011 |publisher=South Ossetian Electoral Commission |language=Russian}}

Arts and entertainment

Sports

Births

  • 27 September - Giorgi Bagration Bagrationi, son of Prince David Bagration of Mukhrani and Princess Anna Bagrationi Gruzinsky{{cite web |title=Protesto Geração à Rasca juntou entre 160 e 280 mil pessoas só em Lisboa e Porto – Sociedade – PUBLICO.PT |url=http://www.publico.pt/Sociedade/protesto-geracao-a-rasca-juntou-entre-160-e-280-mil-pessoas-so-em-lisboa-e-porto_1484504 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110315092447/http://www.publico.pt/Sociedade/protesto-geracao-a-rasca-juntou-entre-160-e-280-mil-pessoas-so-em-lisboa-e-porto_1484504 |archive-date=15 March 2011 |access-date=2011-03-13}}

Deaths

  • January 10 — Shota Kviraia, ex-Minister of Interior (1993–1995) and of Security (1995–1997), kidney failure, Moscow.{{cite news |date=11 January 2011 |title=Экс-глава МВД и КГБ Грузии Шота Квирая скончался в Москве [Ex-head of Georgian MIA and CSS dies in Moscow] |language=Russian |agency=RIA Novosti |url=http://ria.ru/society/20110111/320346659.html |accessdate=3 February 2013}}
  • July 19 — Vakhtang Gogolashvili, writer (born 1932).

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