I humbly suggests Russians may have a different view of differences between Russia and Europe, specially when they are of Europe Russia, but besides this corner-picking, you make a good point.
Besides the fact that this is obviously within the job description of Sue to determine (this is one of the things that the community has no say in of course, and rightfully) I also want to state that it is weird that you apperently feel such a need for the US, but not for Japan, China, Africa or Russia, which, imho, have much larger cultural and legal differences with Europe then the US...
BR, Lodewijk
Well, we do have a different view of the matter.