It doesn't matter if the game server (according to the Steam overlay) is hosted in London, Stockholm or Helsinki. Almost every player in every match are from Russia or speak Russian. It is a pretty bad experience for everyone else. Feels just like CS and DotA.
You can see information about a players item if you hover over it in the left corner in spectator and replay mode. But as soon as you open up the shop and close it the tooltip/hover stops working until you rejoin the server. This is a very minor problem since it still works from the shop or the...