Do Belarusians in general look very different from Russians?

[Viridian1]

Maybe you do, but I don't consider them as such. Calling them a cute mix of Poles, Russians and whatever else is equally silly in my view. It is as ignorant as calling Poles a mix of let's say Germans and Russians, well I've seen someone claiming that too.

They are much closer than Ukrainians.

[Roy]

They are much closer than Ukrainians.

They could be but not because of Polish ancestry,

[Ülev]

anyway Lukashanka is closer to Mordor
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/ar...nia-lukashenko
Belarus to Close Border With Poland and Lithuania -Lukashenko

https://www.euronews.com/2020/09/17/...-and-lithuania

[ooops]

Belarusians are just Russians living in another country

[Roy]

Belarusians are just Russians living in another country

They are being indoctrinated into thinking so for a long time already, but it's not true. They are though closely related.

[Vessna]

Belarusians in general do not look like Russians. Obviously there are individuals that look eastern but the majority does not. I think this could be a good thread to post pictures of Belarusians from my instagram feed.

[Russki]

close to Baltic nations like Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians

Lithuanians/Latvians aren't that close to Estonians, and the Finnic ethnicity of the latter is decipherable with Eurogenes K36 where they are closer to Russians.

[Feiichy]

No. They look the same as west Russians.

I want to edit my old claim. While western Russians like people from Smolensk are identical to Belarusians, overall Russians look different than Belarusians do.

I would go as far and say that Belarusians look closer to Lithuanians and non-Germanic admixed Poles than to Russians and Ukrainians (who also differ between themselves ofc)

[Feiichy]

Belarusians in general do not look like Russians. Obviously there are individuals that look eastern but the majority does not. I think this could be a good thread to post pictures of Belarusians from my instagram feed.

I would be very curious to see pictures of Belarusians.

[Victor]

They are being indoctrinated into thinking so for a long time already, but it's not true. They are though closely related.

Universal consciousness and language is one of main pillars of what is nation and it goes before haplogroups and phenotypes. If not Communism, part of modern Belorussia citizens would be Poles, other part Russians, in quite a natural way of superb urban culture absorbing the pastoral identity in era of rapid urbanization.