[1] On 10 April 2006, following the 2006 presidential election in Belarus, the Chairwoman of the CEC, Lidia Yermoshina, was placed on a list of over 40 members of the Belarusian government banned from entering the European Union and the United States for allegedly participating in the manipulation of the results of the presidential election; the ban was lifted in 2008.
[6] On 2 October 2020 the European Union imposed sanctions on all 12 members of the commission for violations in the August election.
[14] In March 2022, the new head of the CEC, Igor Karpenko, was added to the Canadian sanctions list.
[15] In June 2022 Karpenko was also blacklisted by the European Union;[16] Switzerland joined these sanctions shortly thereafter.
[17] In March 2023, Karpenko and other members of the Belarusian CEC who had joined the commission after 2020 were added to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List.