Yea, Russia is huge, even after 1991... I don't know the exact values, but I'd guess it's bigger than the USA, so I think it's fair if they make a new platform there; it should also support Australia, AFAIK their latency is always reaching the sky. Well, Hungary used to be quite big too, but history was rude for us... doesn't matter.
I'll pm you with the hero links in half an hour; it's three icon-sets, the last one is under development, meaning his tooltips haven't been made yet - I'll let you know once it's done (he'll also need 10 icons because he has two forms with different spells [it's based on Anub'Arak - he gains new spells while burrowed], so it's also only fair if I don't overload you)
Oh, and I agree on the fact the UI is quite poor - however at least the game is great at champion mechanisms. There're many unique heroes and I like it, for me it's more important than the graphics, however if they would have you forking for them.... it'd be a different story.