If they wasn't at war, do you think the best Emea players was going to be from these two like in CsGO?
doubt, even when gambit was on top of the world you only really have a few people from the russian region that are actually strong in the game.
its pretty much how you described it right now (less popular region but players like nats, something, krystal, jemkin (although hes not slavic), suygetsu, shao, demon1 (if he counts), trexx, cloud, chronicle, purp0, etc)