europe

It's less about the size of the state and more about alignment.

The party in power in Georgia is (perceived as being) pro-Russia, so they get full throated condemnation.

Turkey is a member of NATO but openly plays both sides, so they get muted criticism.

The US is the EU's puppet master, so they get complete silence.

For the Hong Kong protests, China bad but also China is a key player in the world economy, so media and "NGOs" put out drivel while the governments mostly stayed silent or gave weak meaningless condemnations.

If something like this happened in Russia, they would go

it's not strange, it's business as usual

the current social contract between the us and the eu is that the eu supports american imperialism as long as the us plays the bad guy and the eu can occasionally act like the moral opposition to suppress any actual opposition

there are also protests in Bulgaria against switching to the euro, I’m guessing the mainstream EU media won’t be reporting on that either