Few months ago I a extra radiator fitted in the conservatory. The lowest quote by good margin came from this guy who sounded Eastern European on the phone. We agreed on the price and he said he would do the job on the weekend. On Saturday two guys knock on my door. Two regular English blokes. I open the door and it is the gas guys. It's a son/dad team. The son tells me they are Russians. Dad can't speak English and they have been in UK just over a year. What struck me was these guys were more 'English' then Italian, Spanish, Greeks, Portugese I have seen. Indeed there was no differance at all between these guys and your regular English. Only language divided them. Moral of the story. Russians are as European as English, Germans, Poles etc