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Ion Calmîș

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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 kindergarten classroom with new furniture and equipment, no identifiable children.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

173 children at Ungheni's „Delia” kindergarten receive equipment through EQIP — on a grant, not a loan

The „Delia” nursery-kindergarten in the municipality of Ungheni is one of the 200 preschool institutions selected nationally for equipment through the „Improving the Quality of Education” project (EQIP) — position 68 on the Ministry of Education's list and one of 9 kindergartens in Ungheni raion. The institution's 173 children represent 4,1% of the children enrolled in early education in the raion. The equipment comes from a non-repayable World Bank grant, not from a loan — unlike the equipping of schools in the same project, among them the „Ion Creangă” Lyceum in Ungheni, which comes from a loan. In parallel, the municipality's strategy shows that at „Delia” the roof needs major repair, the building is not thermally insulated and access ramps are missing.

Ion Calmis·18 July 2026· News
2/3 confirmed · PEOPLE — pending· got a tip? write to us →
Urban garden laid out in the centre of a small town, with flower beds, young shrubs, paths and benches, bordered by low buildings; warm summer light, no identifiable people.
PUBLIC SERVICES

Ungheni City Hall calls itself „just a partner” in the downtown garden — but it puts up half the budget

The green space between Înfrățirii Square and the Episcopal Cathedral, covering 0,8 hectares, is being turned into an „urban garden” through a cross-border project funded by the European Union. The total budget is 303.802,50 euros, and Ungheni City Hall states on its page that it is „just a partner”. Programme documents show, however, that the municipality holds the largest individual budget in the project — 152.261 euros, or 50,1% — more than the organisation leading the project. Work begins about five months before the completion deadline.

Ion Calmis·18 July 2026· News
An open trench cut into the asphalt of a city street, with a thick metal pipe exposed and water pooling at the bottom; beside it, excavated earth and pavement kerbs.
PUBLIC SERVICES

Seven hours announced, a second day without water: Ungheni District Hospital on the list of those affected

A leak on a water main 500 millimetres in diameter at 8 Vasile Lupu Street was announced on Thursday for a seven-hour intervention, between 09:00 and 16:00. On Friday, the operator said the works were continuing, “as unforeseen technical complications arose during the intervention”, with a new deadline estimated at 17:00. The list of affected consumers on the second day also includes Ungheni District Hospital, which did not appear on the first one. In 2024, the operator reported 270 unplanned interruptions, 268 of which were resolved within the regulatory deadline.

Ion Calmis·17 July 2026· News
2/3 confirmed · DOCUMENTS — pending· got a tip? write to us →
Teenagers at tables with laptops in a rural public library, with bookshelves in the background
LOCAL

The Zagarancea library calls teenagers to its artificial-intelligence club — Sundays, from 18.00

The Zagarancea Public Library publicly presented its teenagers' club “Friends of Artificial Intelligence”, in an announcement published on the informal AI Appreciation Day. According to the poster, the club meets on the second and fourth Sunday of the month, from 18.00, and the library is run by Tatiana Zaițev, one of the laureates of the “Librarian of the Year 2023” title.

Ion Calmis·17 July 2026· News
2/3 confirmed · DATA — pending· got a tip? write to us →
A road descending through a Moldovan locality with houses and small apartment blocks, a road sign seen from behind in the foreground, hills and a river in the background
LOCAL

Cornești's second merger attempt goes to public consultation: with Bumbăta, the new perimeter reaches 4.064 residents

The Cornești town hall has opened a public consultation on the draft decision for the amalgamation with Cornești village and Bumbăta village — recommendations are accepted until July 28, through an online form. The new perimeter clears the legal threshold of 3.000 residents by more than a thousand. The race is tight: the Government has announced that the voluntary phase closes on July 31, and the councils still have to vote on the final decision.

Ion Calmis·17 July 2026· News
A contactless payment validator mounted on a pole inside a bus, showing a card pictogram and the message «Please validate your card or ticket» on its screen.
PUBLIC SERVICES

«Were not confirmed»: Ungheni's transport operator finds no double charge and will not say how it checked

Three days after several passengers complained, in the comments under the notice about paying by card on the bus, about multiple charges, SRL «Servicii Comunale Ungheni» announces that it «checked every case reported» and that nothing was confirmed, putting some of the complaints down to «fake profiles». The statement does not say how many cases were checked or by what method, and the questions Triunghi.md sent on 14 July remain unanswered. Under the notice, a woman from Ungheni keeps asking where the journeys on the travel card have gone.

Ion Calmis·17 July 2026· News
Printed documents with tables of figures spread across a desk, with a glass of clear water and a water meter in the foreground, in cold morning light
PUBLIC SERVICES

Apă-Canal Ungheni responds to the water-tariff article: five clarifications, no figure disproved

SRL „Apă-Canal Ungheni” has published five clarifications on our article about the 40.01 lei/m³ tariff, in force since 14 July. Checked against the documents, they disprove no figure: two repeat figures the article had already published, one recalculates the electricity decrease on a different basis — 19.1% instead of 19.4%, the same conclusion — and the response also brings new data, which we publish: the structure of the roughly 140 employees, the history of the electricity price and the waste-water repumping stations. The main findings remain without comment. And three days after the tariff took effect, the operator's tariff page and the ANRE registry were still displaying the old price.

Ion Calmis·16 July 2026· NewsWHAT'S AT STAKE
Mayor Vitalie Vrabie (left) and the U.S. Chargé d'Affaires a.i., Nick Pietrowicz, hold a commemorative picture reading «Happy Independence Day – 250 Years», bearing Ungheni's insignia, in the mayor's office on 16 July 2026.
LOCAL

“Commercial diplomacy” in Ungheni: an American factory and aid that has stopped

On 16 July, Mayor Vitalie Vrabie received Nick Pietrowicz, the U.S. Embassy's Chargé d'Affaires a.i., who spoke about “commercial diplomacy” and Ungheni's potential. Beyond the protocol photo, America today means one concrete thing in Ungheni: a factory with American roots (Lear) in the free economic zone and a legacy of USAID projects — bus stops, a fire station, a courthouse — that came to a halt in 2025, when the agency was dismantled. A sober inventory: what is confirmed, what remains only a promise.

Ion Calmis·16 July 2026· Explainer