Run-ins over gay film, splintering opposition, protests – “Week in the Caucasus” from JAMnews

The week of 4-9 November 2019 in just 90 seconds

• Why are hundreds of young people in Yerevan demanding the resignation of the Minister of Education?

• How and why right wing groups and priests tried to storm a cinema in Tbilisi

• Why an opposition party splintered in Azerbaijan

• Who hacked 2,000 websites in Georgia?

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