[10][11] According to Tuzin.fm, the prohibition of the festival may have been associated with the appointment of a new chairman of the Polotsk local office of the KGB, who reportedly expressed dissatisfaction as to the holding of the event.
[13] Andrey Alexandrov is his article over at Belarusian Partisan on the topic referred to the signs of a political nature too.
[14] Tat’yana Zamirovskaya, a journalist for the Muzykalnaya Gazeta, called it "a decent and very nice get-together without mock glossiness, arrogant pathos, and incomprehensible show off" in a report on the results of the festival in Novopolotsk in 2001.
[15][16] Reviewing the XV edition of the festival in 2005, Muzykalnaya Gazeta’s Anastasiya Shtukina wrote, “Today there is not a single urban project in Belarus that could boast the same popularity among young people and such a long history.”[17] Aliaksandra Paŭlava, author of the Muzykalnaya Gazeta, described the phenomenon of the festival in the article Russian: «Рок-кола» – белорусский рок жив as "an idea that helps Polotsk and Novopolotsk to be one of the most rock'n'roll cities in Belarus, because there are many bands who know what to work for, they will have their viewership.
"[18] Mikita Zmitraŭ from Narodnya Naviny Vitsebska wrote on the results of the last festival Rock-kola, "For two days, Polotsk lived by music.