Hi Yaroslav, no, my original plan was to start the campaign when the mainland part of the countries you mentioned (especially the US and France) start the competition.
The problem we have with Russia is that the scope of the project is not yet known to us, so I planned to run the UploadCampaign and the CentralNotice banners on September 1 00:00 local time in Saint Petersburg. I also planned to end the campaign in Canada and the US on October 1 00:00 PDT (Pacific Daylight Time), but if there are some good reasons not to do that, I'm open to hear them :-))
Thanks