the Emotions that Russians have to Alyaksandr Lukashenka, often positive: respect (34% in 2017, the proportion experiencing this feeling stable), sympathy (18%), confidence (14%). The share of negative feelings is also present in the attitude of Russians to the President of Belarus, but it is minor: some respondents identified a lack of confidence (7% minus 5 percentage points in 2017), frustration (5%), antipathy (4%) and skepticism (4%).
evaluation of the current relations between Russia and Belarus mainly neutral or positive. Call relations normal, calm 27% of Russians. According to 15% of the Russians, these relations can be described as friendly, another 17% called them good, neighborly. In a negative range of current relations between the two countries see only 6% of Russians: they consider the relations between States are strained.
