hi!
what can I say about russian schware scene... now it's much better then 2 years ago. We have concerts once a month, many band were released at Russian labels, such as Covenant, melotron, De/vision/ mesh, In Strict Confidence, FV , Front 242 and others..
We have some Russian synth-pop and gothic bands, but they are still not known abroad, except DJ RAM.
some information in English can be found at
www.gothic.ru