The Signal electronic music festival has relocated from Nikola-Lenivets to Moscow after regional officials in Kaluga raised security concerns about potential drone strikes. Event organizers confirmed the change in venue.
For several months, planners had been negotiating with Kaluga authorities and meeting their conditions for the festival. Although no formal prohibition was issued, local officials in Nikola-Lenivets recently declared the event "inadvisable."
In a statement on the Signal Live Telegram channel, organizers announced: "Signal 2025 will no longer occur in Nikola-Lenivets but will instead take place across multiple venues in Moscow during the same scheduled weekend. Further details will follow shortly."
Since 2017, Signal has been an annual electronic music festival hosted in Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluga region. This year's edition was planned for August 14–18 before regional authorities cited "participant safety risks" as grounds for cancellation. Yegor Virkov, head of Kaluga's Dzerzhinsky district, attributed the decision to heightened threats from Ukrainian drone operations.