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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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A museum room with a reconstructed traditional house interior: on the left, an old wooden window with flaking paint set on a plinth; in the centre, a man in a white shirt points towards the exhibits; in the background, a wooden weaving loom, an embroidered shirt, an old rug on the parquet floor and a carved crucifix on the wall.
LOCAL

Ungheni has 18 residential buildings left from before 1919. From a house demolished in Dănuțeni, the museum saved the carved window

A museum curator happened to walk past a house being demolished in the Dănuțeni district and called his colleagues to pull out of the rubble whatever could still be saved: a solid wood window carved on three registers, a gable with a solar rosette. The pieces are now on display at the Museum of History and Ethnography. The house was not a listed monument — nor could it have been: in the state register, the Ungheni district's list occupies positions 1573 to 1720, and not one dwelling house appears in it. The 2024 census shows how much is left of the town's old layer: 18 residential buildings erected before 1919, out of nearly 5,000.

Ion Calmis·22 July 2026· News
Working meeting in the hall of the Ungheni District Council: participants seated at a long table, the flags of the Republic of Moldova and the European Union, the MILEstone project banner and a wall with the names of the district's localities.
ECONOMY & FEZ

Ungheni District, down nearly a quarter of its population, prepares for workers from Nepal and India

At the 22 July meeting of the European MILEstone project, employers in agriculture, manufacturing and services confirmed, according to the council's statement, their readiness to hire workers from outside the EU, while the District Council is looking for ways to bring to life a Migrant Integration Centre — the first of its kind in a district, according to publicly available information. Behind the announcement stand hard numbers: the district went from 96.471 to 73.971 inhabitants in 12 years, the number of young people aged 20–34 fell by 58%, and in 2025 Nepal became the leading country of origin for foreign workers arriving in Moldova.

Ion Calmis·22 July 2026· News
About fifteen people in office attire posing on the steps at the entrance of a building whose sign reads “Primăria municipiului Ungheni”, on a sunny summer day.
LOCAL

The Dutch model shown in Ungheni: 342 municipalities instead of 1,121, but the number has not changed since 2023

Eric Geurts, mayor of the municipality of Beekdaelen in the south of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, met on Tuesday in Ungheni with the mayors of the localities going through voluntary amalgamation. The municipality he leads is itself the product of a merger: it was created on 1 January 2019 out of three municipalities that asked to be merged, through a law passed by the Dutch parliament. The Netherlands has gone from 1,121 municipalities in 1899 to 342 today — but the number has not moved since 2023, and the most-cited studies there show that mergers cut administration costs without raising spending on services, and lastingly reduced voter turnout. The public consultation on the Ungheni merger closes on Wednesday.

Ion Calmis·22 July 2026· Explainer
A metal installation shaped like a red heart with a white core and the „Ungheni” marking, standing on the paving of a square; two damaged areas are circled in blue — a detached element at the top and a chipped corner at the base.
LOCAL

The City Hall says the „Heart” in Ungheni's centre is broken again and again. The police: no vandalism cases recorded

Ungheni City Hall says the installation in Independence Square, put up in August 2023, is being vandalised repeatedly, and that the police have detained several perpetrators. How much the installation cost and how much the repairs have cost so far appears in no public source. The law, by contrast, is clear: the same act can be treated as an offence, carrying 900–1,800 lei, or as vandalism — a crime with no damage threshold, carrying a fine from 27,500 lei or up to one year in prison. When the perpetrator is a minor, the bill reaches the parents, and the fine money does not return to the town's budget.

Ion Calmis·22 July 2026· News
Three people stand on the paved walkway in front of the white-and-green building of the high school in Măcărești on a sunny summer day; in the background, the entrance to the school with the flag of the Republic of Moldova.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Almost a million lei in four years for the high school building in Măcărești. Last year, the District Council allocated 505,500 lei for heating alone

The president of Ungheni district, Dionisie Ternovschi, published a video on Tuesday from the «Elada» Theoretical High School in Măcărești, saying that the district traditionally allocates money for current repairs there. The District Council's decisions put figures on that statement: 150,000 lei for 40 radiators in August 2025, 265,500 for the outdoor heating pipes in March and another 90,000 for rebuilding the standalone heating system in November — 505,500 lei in a single year, for heating alone. Added to the façade in 2023 and to the canteen wall and sewerage in May 2026, the allocations reach 976,800 lei in four years, for a school left with 19 pupils in grades X and XI.

Ion Calmis·22 July 2026· News
Triunghi.md graphic: 65.473.345 lei requested from the government to repair the facilities damaged by the rains of 22 May 2026 in Ungheni raion, while local budgets cover 3.2% of the total repair requirement.
LOCAL

Ungheni raion asks the government for 65.5 million lei for the damage left by the 22 May rains

The raion's Commission for Emergency Situations approved on 20 July the figures for the 22 May storm: direct damage of 39.923.838 lei and a repair requirement of 67.624.095,03 lei, of which local budgets cover 2.159.750 lei — 3.2%. The request to the government, 65.473.345,03 lei, is 2.788.185,25 lei smaller than the one approved by the decision of 8 June, after the file was redone on the observations of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations and of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Development. The sum is more than twice the raion's annual road budget.

Ion Calmis·21 July 2026· Explainer
Rows of older cars parked on an asphalt lot in a provincial town, with low-rise blocks and houses on a hill in the background — illustrative image.
LOCAL

34,700 vehicles registered in Ungheni raion, of which 23,527 are cars

At the newsroom's request, the Public Services Agency confirmed the raion's vehicle fleet as of 1 July 2026: 34,700 vehicles, of which 23,527 are cars — over two thirds of the total. These are the figures on which the new homologation law rests, though from 2029 it will apply only to cars brought in after that date. Who will carry out homologation in Ungheni and what it will cost remains, the ASP says, «premature» to determine.

Ion Calmis·21 July 2026· Analysis
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Empty transparent baggies, a precision electronic scale and a phone with its screen lit up on a dark surface — illustrative image.
LOCAL

17 drug criminal cases in Ungheni in 2026 — already more than in all of 2025

In response to a public-interest request, the Ungheni Police Inspectorate disclosed the raion's drug caseload: 12 criminal cases in 2025 and 17 since the start of 2026, young people aged 17–20 among those detained, a network that sold on Telegram, and an admission by the institution itself — that police presence on the ground ‘is insufficient’ without modern technology. What the figures and the articles of law behind them actually mean.

Ion Calmis·20 July 2026· Analysis
Editorial illustration: a gas metering station, with pipes and valves, at a border marked by the flags of the European Union and the Republic of Moldova.
NATIONAL

81% of Moldova's gas comes in through Ungheni. From 5 August, a European rule changes who can reserve capacity at the border

From 5 August, the European rules on 'coupled capacity' become mandatory at the borders of the Republic of Moldova — including at Ungheni, the point through which 81.1% of imported gas entered the country in 2025. The rule is meant to open the market, but, without the European Union's fiscal architecture, around 21 of the 31 licensed suppliers would need either a place of business in Romania or a guarantee of roughly one million euros each. The head of gas trading at Energocom, Sergiu Lica, warns that small suppliers risk being pushed out of the market. For the household bill, though, this is not a 5 August shock.

Ion Calmis·20 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE