I just meant a russian team was developing it, not set in russia, sorry should of been more clear. It's called Natus Ob Imperium. Here is the ModDB page if you want to check it out (
http://www.moddb.com/mods/natus-ob-imperium) and there is a link to the forums where they have more details if you use google translation.
Just looking at their work I'd say its about equal to what you guys are putting out, and the map is nearly identical. They've just went with a more generic approach to the factions, maybe just a permission to swap some units instead of full on collaboration.
EDIT: Yes also the italian one was "De Bello Mundi", but I"m not sure what the situation is on that one.