I'd suggest you're visiting the wrong websites if they contain airbrushed pics and videos etc. To profile yourself have you airbrushed your pics or uploaded a video etc? I very much doubt it, there are many websites out there whereas a lady posts straightforward pics of herself and writes a profile of introduction, airbrushed pics and/or videos indicate 'professional' ladies and/or websites merely to scam the men.
When I talked of appearance in pics previously I should have expanded to talk about the pics two people exchange once they are in correspondence with each other and not merely the pics in a profile.
"My general impression is that the FSU ladies are more 'traditional', at least in their views of marriage, career, and family. They seem to come across as more giving and less selfish and self-centred compared to their western counterparts."
No, that is in fact a subtle distortion of the true nature of the cultural difference peddled by the agency sites.
FSU women (and FSU people in general) are more focused on family and close friends as cultural imperative. I think this is mostly a hang over from the communist era but there may be other factors at play such as the historic lack of free market economics which requires a certain amount of communal trust to flourish. They don't really have the same notion of semi-trusted acquaintance that we in the west have - your either a "outsider" to be mistrusted and freely exploited and deceived without any moral dilemma arising (because this is the cultural expectation of treatment of strangers) OR you are an "insider", someone now part of the family for whom no sacrifice is too great.
What you really have to ask yourself when courting an FSU woman is - am I potential insider material from thier POV. If you read old posts from "colin" from ireland youl see how a girl behaves when you remain an outsider even when your technically married. Search for "peteb"s posts and youl see how a woman treats an insider.