That's a topic to talk for hours. I don't feel like I can make objective judgments, but I can tell that English-speaking debates, on average, are a bit stronger probably because there is a bigger community, so an average room [room is a place where the debates happen among 4 teams, so the term equals 1 game] in Russia is weaker than an average room in English debates. However, Russian and English top-level debaters, from my point of view, are not that different in aspects of analytical and practical skill, moreover I would say that some Russian-speaking debaters can be stronger than some of English-speaking top debaters, the only problem is the language barrier, which some people like Misha Shuganov tried and successfully overcame. Maybe also the diversity of tournaments, and the diversity of the discourse, meaning the number of topics for debates, because usually some trends on what to debate about come from Europe. For example, we started debating on feminism only after when it was already a thing in Europe. Now ecology is quite popular, and we don't have this trend yet, because there is some bias to that topic and some opinions that it's not important, which is of course not true. But anyway, these topics channel to our debates sooner or later.