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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 carabinier in black uniform, with CARABINIERI written across the back and the coat of arms of Moldova on the sleeve, seen from behind, in a park.
PUBLIC SERVICES

An 11-year-old boy lost in «Micul Cluj» park was walked home by carabinieri — the third person the same company has helped in 12 days

The boy, disoriented, could not find his own way home. Carabinieri on patrol identified where he lived and took him back to his parents. Across the whole country in 2025, carabinieri returned more than 20 lost children to their families — and the official rule when a child goes missing is to call 112 immediately, not after 24 hours.

Ion Calmis·14 July 2026· News
Photograph from the «Linii în dialog» exhibition: three works by the Ungheni pupils hung on a red gallery wall — a city with green umbrellas, a blue archway with a figure, and an orange cat holding a «STOP» sign.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Seven pupils from Ungheni's art school are exhibiting in Iași, in a Municipal Museum gallery, until 31 July. Entry is free

The exhibition «Linii în dialog» («Lines in Dialogue») brings together 17 young artists from Iași and Ungheni at the «Dumitru I. Grumăzescu» Galleries in Iași — a section of the «Regina Maria» Municipal Museum, the museum network of Iași City Hall. It is open until 31 July, and its opening was held on Thursday, 16 July. Seven of the exhibitors are pupils of the «Raisa Cojocaru» School of Fine Arts in Ungheni, coached by the school's headmistress. The show is run not by the school but by an association from Iași, through a project whose partners include Ungheni City Hall. Entry is free.

Ion Calmis·13 July 2026· News
Evidence laid out on the floor and photographed by police: stacks of printed zip-lock baggies, a precision electronic scale, a blackened spoon and small, dark pieces of hashish.
LOCAL

Why Telegram drug networks look for couriers who are exactly 18 — police detained one of them in Ungheni

The Anti-Drug Directorate detained him at his home in Ungheni after about a month of surveillance: police say he collected drugs in bulk, portioned them in a rented flat in Chișinău and hid them around the city for a shop that sells on Telegram. Police announced the value of the goods — over 50,000 lei — but not the quantity in grams, the one figure that decides whether the sentence starts at 2 years or at 7. He is the second 18-year-old announced in twelve days with exactly the same pattern, and the Criminal Code shows why this link in the chain is sought at precisely this age.

Ion Calmis·13 July 2026· Explainer
Seven people posing standing, under the coat of arms of Ungheni municipality, in the City Hall meeting room: City Hall employees, mayor Vitalie Vrabie in the centre and Peace Corps volunteer Megan Knox.
LOCAL

Ungheni City Hall advertised, 16 months ago, the very job for which it is now getting an American volunteer for free

On 13 July, City Hall announced that Megan Knox — a Peace Corps volunteer who came from Seattle — is joining the team for two years, to digitalise its services. The natural question is why not a Polytechnic graduate, from Ungheni. The answer is in City Hall's own archive: on 21 March 2025 it advertised the post of “IT specialist (in Digital Transformation)” — and it asked not for engineering, but for public administration, economics or law. No result of that competition was ever published, and the mayor says now that he still wants the person. City Hall's best-paid specialist earns 8,960 lei a month; the average in IT services is 49,654. And the job itself — “digitalisation specialist” — is not allowed to exist, as a title, in the staffing schedule of any city hall in Moldova.

Ion Calmis·13 July 2026· Analysis
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LOCAL

The man who bought a garage to build a weightlifting gym. Two world champions came out of it

Gheorghe Gorencu worked six years in Spain, came back to Unțești and bought a garage that was up for sale in the village, to turn it into a weightlifting gym. He never charged rent, paid the electricity out of his own salary and took no money from the children. National-team lists name him as the coach of Nicoleta Cojocaru — from the age of eleven — and of Danu Secrieru. He died in 2023. Since 2025, the village of Unțești no longer appears at all in the national weightlifting squad lists.

Ion Calmis·13 July 2026· Analysis
The «Elegie» children's choir of Ungheni's Music School, in blue capes, arranged in rows on a hall stage, with the conductor in the foreground.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

The «Elegie» children's choir of Ungheni's Music School wins the Grand Prize at an international competition

The «Elegie» children's choir, conducted by Ala Beleac, won the Grand Prize at the Elite International Arts Competition 2026 — a first-edition contest held entirely online. The distinction is a real victory for the children of Ungheni's Music School, and an occasion to look at the system behind it: a network of municipal art schools with nearly six decades of tradition, in a district that has lost more than half of its young people in twelve years.

Ion Calmis·13 July 2026· News
Two amateur football teams in yellow-black and blue-white kits lined up for the pre-match handshake on a grass pitch under a clear sky, with spectators and cars along the sideline.
LOCAL

«MAGIRUS» Cup semifinals are set: Mănoilești vs Haiduc Bumbăta and Sculeni vs Unirea Cetireni

The quarterfinal second legs of the Ungheni district football cup, «MAGIRUS», were played on Sunday, 12 July, deciding the four semifinalists. The surprise of the evening: FC Unirea Cetireni overturned a 0-2 first-leg deficit against FC Regina Maria. The semifinals are FC Mănoilești vs FC Haiduc Bumbăta and FC Sculeni vs FC Unirea Cetireni.

Ion Calmis·13 July 2026· News
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