How did the original IE�s look like?

PS:That ritual involving jumping over the fire is still present in  serbia, too�

Personally, I think that the originial IE's look like today's mediterraneans.  They had a mixture of light skinned to olive skinned people with darker hair and dark eyes.  There were also people with lighter eyes/hair, but the majority had darker features.  I find it hard to believe that these people had Nordic features and somehow have intermarried with other races that their original nordic features are all but gone.  This is just b.s. Western(Nordic) propoganda just like how they say the ancient greeks, persians, and italians were nordic. 

I agree Maju.Tamils also have fire-rituals and Tamil isn't an IE language.I guess these rituals have more to do with religion.Having said that,I won't be surprised if Hutsul,Serbian and Iranian fire-rituals have a common origin.

I tried to find information on origin of Russian ethnicity.

Emergence of Russian ethnicity

Russians in traditional dress

Russians began to be recognized as a distinct ethnic group in the 15th century, when they were referred to as Muscovite Russians, during the consolidation of Muscovy Tsardom as a regional power. Between 12th and 16th century Russians known as Pomors migrated to Northern Russia and settled White Sea coasts. As a result of the migrations and Russian conquests (following liberation from the Mongol Golden Horde domination) during 15th-16th centuries Russians settled the Volga, Urals and Northern Caucasus regions. Between 17th and 19th centuries Russian migrants settled the vast sparsely inhabited areas in Siberia and Russian Far East. A major role in these territorial expansions and migrations was played by the Russian Cossacks.

According to most ethnologists ethnic Russians originated from the earlier Rus' people (East Slavs of Kievan Rus), and gradually evolved into a different ethnicity from the western Rus people who became the modern-day Belarusians and Ukrainians. Some ethnologists maintain that Russians were a distinct Slavic group even before the time of Kievan Rus. Others believe that the distinguishing feature of the Russians is not primarily their separation from Western Rus, but that ethnic Russians are a mix of East Slavic and non-Slavic (for example Finno-Ugric, Germanic, Baltic and Turkic) tribes. However, the origin of the Slavic peoples is itself a matter of on which there is no consensus.

http://www.answers.com/topic/russian   

You are wrong, he's nothing special. I'm afraid, you accept the German myths about dolichocephalic Teutons and brachycephalic Slavs too uncritically. Elena Dementieva would be a much better example of a very dolichocephalic Russian than Aleksey Serebryakov.

In the Iranian version by jumping over the fire you take soul vitality from it and pass the ills of your soul to it.

Originally posted by Apples n Oranges Originally posted by Socrates PS:That ritual involving jumping over the fire is still present in  serbia, too?O Is it called Prevelj Socrates. "When Serbians Dance" by Dennis Boxell RITUAL DANCES  Rituals give us an insight into how dance was an inseparable part of the people��s lives. They date back to a time when dancing was not only a question of social events and festivals, but was an expression of prayer and supernatural rite.  Through the dance, a man could heal the sick, summon and dispel the forces of nature, bless the fields and the community, and bestow good fortune on himself and others.  Ritual dances might be either the main expression of the occasion or simply an integral part.  Sometimes they were performed by secret societies or special clubs of boys or girls who had banded together specifically for these rituals.  Many of these rituals still survive today, either in original or changed form. PREVELJ In several Serbian villages on the Mlava River, ��Prevelj�� was a ritual-dance enacted around a fire for the peace of dead souls.  A large bonfire was built and each family who had had a recent death, would carry a log to this fire in dedication to their dead relative.  The women were not usually allowed to be present at this event, but sometimes one woman would steal toward the fire and touch it with her spindle as a symbolic gesture.  The dancing around the fire would get under way as soon as the musicians had first played a somber piece to which there was no dancing.  The villagers would stand around the fire holding on to each other by their waistbands, while the mourners who did not dance, held lighted candles.  The kolovodja, or leader of the kolo, held a long rod or staff in his right hand, and as soon as the fire died down, would call out to the line of dancers to jump over the fire.  Those who wouldn��t jump might be admonished by means of his large staff.  Today the custom of jumping over the fire is largely dying out, through dancing around bonfires is still popular. http://www.dennisboxell.com/Folklore%20Essays.htm

NW Euro? North-Western Europeans look like this:

The Russian students you know look NE Euro.