Hi Linsi,
it's not weird that it sounds russia, as we're all slavic people (russia, serbia, croatia, montenegro, bosnia, macedonia, slovenia, czech, slovakia, poland, ukraina, belarus... etc). Actually, it's not so hard to understand russian if you are serb - simmilar languages. And croatian is almost the same as serbian (once upon a time they were one language: serbo-croatian language).
average height here is about 6feet (180cm), but if you take a look at young people born after 1980 for example, it's much easier to find someone taller than 180cm than opposite.
let me know if your'e interested in anything else
