[5] However, on February 24, 2012, it was announced that she was disqualified after the Belarusian President conducted an investigation leading to her "unfair" win in Eurofest 10 days earlier after rumors circulated that the producers had rigged the televoting giving her 12 points making her the winner.

On December 7, 2012, Lanskaya won the national final, gaining top marks from both the public and jury vote,[7] and represented Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden.

During the 2020 Belarusian presidential elections and the protests that followed them, Alyona Lanskaya actively supported Alexander Lukashenko, and said ex-presidential candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was wrong.

She described the peaceful actions of the opponents of the authorities in the following words, “Belarusians are simply tired of being poor, and they wanted to become beggars.”[9] Lanskaya performed in the support of Lukashenko's regime, participated in pro-government car rallies.

She commented on the ban, “You can block me either on VKontakte, or Instagram, or Facebook because social networks have never played such an important role for me as for other people.” At the same time, the singer also stated that if the page is not unblocked within a day, she would file a complaint to the Militsiya to “investigate this case.”[11]