As I type the far Right/neo-fascist rioting triggered by the Gay Pride march in Belgrade is the fourth item on BBC TV News, and the second item on BBC Radio 4 News.Thanks Auntie, I didn't know you cared.
But Pride events in other eastern European cities, including Bratislava, Moscow, Riga and Warsaw, have also been met with violence in recent years without them being considered newsworthy by BBC TV.
Fagburn wonders if this sudden but selective concern for gay rights in an eastern European country has more to do with the Western media having spent so many years demonising the Serbs and Serbia - our last Officially Declared Enemy before 9/11 - that this has become a Pavlovian response?
At least this time no-one is arguing that we should start bombing Belgrade.
• Reports from Belgrade's B92 here.
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