My timeline has a bit different epochs, but basically I would see 4 dominant figures in Europorn since 1995 or end 1990, one of them being LP owner xxx.
Budapest 1995-2005: PW and Rocco still
Prague 2000-5: Robert Rosenberg and Bohemia Agency
Piter (Russia) 2006-13: Giorgio Grandi and his scouts
Prague 2014ff: xxx and Giorgio Grandi
Crucial point is Giorgio getting expelled from Russia and finding refuge in Prague, than joining forces with xxx and keeping a foot in Russian talent pool still, also thanks to SOS. Giorgio during his norestfortheass time in Piter show much harder anal scenes than average Piter porn traveller (Rocco and PW included). In 2014 he injected that work ethic into a pretty softcore geared Prague porn scene propelling sort of a revolution. This was helped by financial possibilities and support unseen to far, much better fees offered to the girls and much more jobs appearing. This tendency towards much harder anal was helped by SOS Piter shot scenes with really exceptional talent hardly possible to find in Czech anymore after EU accession. Thinks of Arwen Gold from end 2014ff. End 2015 was SOS move to Mexico heralding the slow end of that groundbreaking studio. But until them gonzo and GIO had stabilized as much as to carry on alone really fine with a yet harder anal porn offer initiated by Giorgio Grandi almost 10years earlier with his Russian girls.
Russian (Piter/St. Peterburg) part is more complicated and we see now old links surfacing again in actual GLab crew, its not only Giorgio Grandi for sure, Timo played a crucial role, Kessef had a part as well, but Giorgio is the most prominent figure really infusing Russian porn attitude into EU and not only importing Russian girls and studs.
LP (than consisting of gonzo, GIO and SOS studio) thus by mid 2015 set on an unpreceded triumphal march of demanding anal porn, noteworthy previously scarce porn acts like DAP. Just for instance look it this bestseller list of July 2015 to get an idea what I am talking about:
https://pornbox.com/application/store/b ... ers/2015/7Now 5 years later GLab studio Piter could herald a 2nd revolution IF they had camera people SOS had in his Piter and also Mexico crew. Scouting is almost at the same level, anal hardcore shooting craft isn't at the same level, but basics are still there. Save shooting is sure more difficult, but basically possible. What seems lacking is SOS talent and technical perfectionism. But a similar level could be transferred.