I think I sort of know why you say that...
Though there is a little too much emphasis on the lower part of the face for a Flemish.
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It always happens that it is not as one would have imagined. More oriental than I would have imagined.
Guys from Arkhangelsk
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Northern Russians, a map of genetic distances by Y-chromosome haplogroups
http://генофонд.рф/?page_id=5412
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The originality of the Pomors of the Onega Peninsula and the Zimny Coast in the genetic context of northern Europe https://vestnik.rsmu.press/archive/2...ontent?lang=en
Residents of Vologda according to neural network data
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They look like what they are: a mixture of "Ukrainian"-like individuals with Finns. 60% of these faces pass as typical in Kiev, 30% as a more "Great" Russian look and 10% don't pass (those looking too mixed). Even so, as all East Slavic groups, the Slavic element is in strong majority. The Szekelers in Romania display a higher rate of textbook lapponoids and fenno-nordics (even if most look just Romanian), so I'd say the latter influence in Russians is even smaller.
Conclusion: Slavs were too numerous to be greatly influenced by the sparse people of the North
Traits of Finno-Ugric appearance of Russians depends on region, it is available in the north and in the Volga region.
South Russians do resemble Ukrainians, but the settlement of central and northern Russia went through the territory of modern Belarus