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Founder and editor-in-chief of Triunghi.md. Ion (Nalyk) Calmîș has worked at the intersection of journalism and technology in the Republic of Moldova for over two decades — a road that began in Ungheni, as a reporter at the newspaper Unghiul. He is CTO of Studio Technologies, the company behind the platforms of some of the country's most-read newsrooms (unimedia.info, jurnal.md, jurnaltv.md, tvrmoldova.md), and Head of AI Ecosystem at Esempla Systems (Moldova's GovStack infrastructure); he co-founded the newsroom Replica Media. At Triunghi.md he puts that experience — and artificial intelligence, at scale — in the service of local journalism built on source triangulation (People, Documents, Data) and on impartiality.

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The bright interior of a renovated hospital ward: a room with a medical bed and a monitor for vital functions next to a large window, a clean corridor with a glossy floor and rooms along the sides.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

The Ungheni hospital has completely renovated its neurology ward — 32 beds, an intensive care room and new equipment for stroke and epilepsy

The Ungheni District Hospital announces that its neurology ward has been renovated in full and re-equipped: 32 beds, an intensive care room with continuous monitoring of vital functions, a video-EEG, a Doppler scanner for the brain's vessels and a physiotherapy room. The announcement does not say how much it cost — but public procurement shows works contracted by the hospital for the neurology and paediatrics wards worth over 3.3 million lei, plus a repair job of up to 924,000 lei. And the hospital itself admits that the rest of the infrastructure needs “a far more complex and radical approach”.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· Analysis
Illustration: a football referee raises a red card on a deserted rural pitch at dusk, with goalposts and hills in the background.
LOCAL

Bumbăta plays the «MAGIRUS» semifinal return leg without a player and without its club representative — 1,400 lei fine for threats against referees

The Competitions Commission of the Ungheni Territorial Football Association sanctioned FC Haiduc Bumbăta after the semifinal first leg against Mănoilești: player Nicolae Pușculița and representative Ion Matrosu are each suspended for three matches, and the club pays 1,400 lei — for offensive conduct and threats against the referees. The decision lands on a team that already has a 0–2 to overturn in the return leg, and it stirred, in the comments, a debate about the consistency of the penalties. The edition's bulletins so far show how sanctions are decided in district football — and how much the documented fines add up to.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· Analysis
A yellow roller compactor smooths a fresh layer of black asphalt on a street in a residential neighbourhood of Ungheni, bordered by a fence and a rose bed.
LOCAL

Ungheni paves Mihai Viteazul street “from the local budget” — it's on the list for the 10-million loan

On 23 July, Ungheni City Hall announced the repair of Mihai Viteazul street — 500 metres in the Berești-Vasilica neighbourhood — carried out “from the local budget” by the municipal company Servicii Comunale Ungheni. Public records show the street is one of 14 objects on a list the Municipal Council approved in May to be modernised with a 10-million-lei loan raised through municipal bonds; the decision publishes only the overall ceiling and how many metres are to be paved, not the cost of each street. The work is done in-house, without a separate works tender — a lawful model, but one in which the cost of the repair remains, so far, unpublished.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· Analysis
An empty school corridor, with a blank nameplate on the door of an administrative office and archive boxes stacked against the wall.
NATIONAL

46 schools in Ungheni district move to the state, with 72.5% of the district budget — public documents do not say whether the district gains or loses

The Government has approved the draft «Restart in Education» reform, which still has to be voted by Parliament: from 1 January 2027, primary schools, gymnasiums, lyceums and special education move from district councils to Territorial Agencies for Education, subordinated to the ministry. District education departments are abolished. In Ungheni district this means 46 institutions with 11,061 pupils, and the segment that leaves amounts to 335.5 million lei, that is 72.5% of the district budget. The Ministry of Finance calculated that 14 district councils gain from the reform and 18 lose — but it did not publish the list, and Ungheni is not among the examples named.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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An open cardboard folder with blank sheets, a partly folded road map, a ruler, a pencil and a cup of coffee on a wooden desk, in morning light.
NATIONAL

The new Government's programme names Ungheni five times, all of them on transport. The free zone never appears

Parliament voted on Tuesday the programme of the Cabinet led by Vasile Tofan, and on Wednesday the Government took the oath. In the document's 147 pages, Ungheni district appears five times — the motorway, the railway to Iași, the bridge over the Prut, the link to Chișinău and the Berești logistics hub — all of them on the transport axis — three of them with a 2029 horizon — and with a cautious verb: “first works advanced”, not completed. The free economic zone, which holds almost one in six salaried jobs in the district, is not mentioned even once.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
A blank official form and a pen on a kitchen table covered with a flowered oilcloth, next to a cup of tea and a pair of knitted booties.
NATIONAL

What the bill approved by the Government would mean for some 74 mothers in Ungheni district: maternity benefit from the father's income, only from 2028

The Government approved on Wednesday a bill that closes an old inequality: today an uninsured woman receives maternity benefit calculated from her husband's income, but not from the income of the child's father, if the two are not married. The bill changes that — provided the father acknowledges paternity and has a contribution period. Three things are not visible from the press release: the provisions enter into force on 1 January 2028, the concrete procedure is not yet written, and the Ministry of Finance issued a negative opinion twice, saying there is no source for the roughly 170 million lei.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
The interior of a small, empty courtroom, with wooden benches, a videoconference screen on the wall and an open laptop next to a stack of case files tied with string.
NATIONAL

What would change at the Ungheni Court if documents were filed electronically only — and who stays on paper

The Government has approved a draft law obliging authorities, companies, individual entrepreneurs, the legal professions and natural persons assisted by a lawyer to file procedural documents exclusively in electronic form, and turning videoconference into a rule rather than an exception. A person who appears in court alone stays on paper — but the moment they hire a lawyer, they automatically move into the electronic regime. At the Ungheni Court, which serves the Ungheni and Nisporeni districts from a single building, the electronic system has been in pilot use since 2022 and recorded, in 2024, a single request for access to case files — compared with 107 at the Bălți Court.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Illustration: a wide lowland river with calm water in soft summer afternoon light; dry grass and willows on the bank reflected in the water, with gentle hills in the distance. No people are shown.
LOCAL

The 9-year-old boy who went missing in the Prut at Ungheni has been found dead

The search at Ungheni has ended in tragedy. On Thursday morning, 23 July, at 09.47, divers of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations found the body of the 9-year-old boy swept away on Tuesday by the currents of the Prut while bathing with other children. The body was found 3–4 kilometres downstream from where he entered the water; the exact cause of death is to be established by law enforcement. The tragedy comes a month after the district's Emergency Situations Commission ordered patrols in the bathing areas along the Prut.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· News
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A welcoming counselling corner, with two soft armchairs facing each other, a small table with a green plant and a cup of tea, gentle natural light through a thin curtain — a warm, safe and confidential space for young people
EDUCATION & HEALTH

The Youth-Friendly Health Centre in Ungheni: free, confidential, ages 10 to 24

In the town of Ungheni there is a Youth-Friendly Health Centre — „ImPuls” — where teenagers and young people aged 10 to 24 receive free, confidential psychological counselling, dermatology consultations, a general practitioner and support on sexual, emotional or substance-use health matters. The centre operates inside IMSP Centrul de Sănătate Ungheni, str. Romană 27, second floor, Monday–Friday, 08.00–17.00. The phone number a young person can call directly, confirmed by the institution: 0236 22-3-34.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· Explainer
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