They are weeks ahead because we got the patches latere. It would kill the PvP.
And the russians are bad in english and this would just cause probs.
Mail ru plan is to bring EU/NA shards close to RU patches , eventually they will be done same day since the servers will merge into 1 big server with different shards.
RU shards already have "channels" where you can switch in server (hosts 1/2/3 etc) that could be done for ingame communication to make game bigger (population wise) but keep the language in place (in what ever communication channel you are as said above)
I'm all into Allods P2P but i do enjoy the aspect of interacting with people , doing raids and having actual GUILDS to play against , not same old faces , or people on multiple accounts , EU p2p is a farm zone now , there is hardly any competition , imps always lose either its PvP or PvE wise , there is no interest in playing since you know you are ahead of them skill wise , manpower wise.