[3][4] Alexander Rodnyansky said: "This year the festival will not take place, it will be rescheduled for a period when we survive the current political events and can return to the cinema, including to understand what happened to the country and to all of us.

In 2005 “Kinotavr” brand was bought by Alexander Rodnyansky, the management switched its focus onto national market and IFF part was stopped.

[5] Kinotavr now was aimed at becoming “a powerful mechanism in the development of a film industry”[9] in Russia and then also continued to make "emphasis on international promotion of Russian product”.

[12] In February 2023, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation announced that the festival would not take place that year either.

The festival's president, Alexander Rodnyansky, was declared a "foreign agent" by the Russian Ministry of Justice on October 21, 2022.