This webinar will evaluate the changing perceptions of Russia within both Ukrainian and Belarusian societies. Russia’s February 2022 invasion turned many of those Ukrainians who might otherwise have been sympathetic to Moscow’s worldview against it, although Russia still has agents of influence in Ukraine. In Belarus, meanwhile, polling suggests a stubborn persistence of sympathy towards Russia’s anti-western arguments - but is that really the case? How much influence does the EU have over each society’s views of Russia?