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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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Two craftsmen work on a massive structure of oak beams in a yard with a shed and a blue fence — the troiță under construction in Valea Mare.
LOCAL

Valea Mare village carves an oak troiță of memory for its war heroes and deportees

In the commune of Valea Mare, Ungheni district, local craftsmen are carving a public troiță — a wayside memorial cross — out of oak beams, dedicated to the villagers who fell in the two world wars and to those deported in 1941 and 1949. The monument began with an October 2024 decision of the communal council and is paid for from the local budget. The work is still in progress, but several answers are missing: how much it costs, when it will be finished and the final form of the dedication — the town hall has not made them public.

Ion Calmis·6 July 2026· News
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Black-and-white archival photograph: a young man in a dark suit and white shirt standing before a wooden wall — Teodor Șișcanu of Măcărești, deported in 1949 to the Irkutsk region.
LOCAL

“The Book of Memory” preserves the face of Teodor Șișcanu, deported from Măcărești to Irkutsk in 1949

In the summer of 1949, the Soviet regime seized an entire family from the village of Măcărești and sent it more than 5,000 kilometres away, to the Irkutsk region. One of the deported children, Teodor Șișcanu, survives in an archival photograph published in The Book of Memory (Cartea Memoriei) — the official catalogue of the victims of totalitarianism. In the Ungheni district, the catalogue gathers around 2,900 names, and for those seized in 1949 the collective “address” had a single name — Irkutsk.

Ion Calmis·6 July 2026· Explainer
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Memorial service at the Martyrs' Cross of the Nation in Ungheni: priests, people holding white flowers and police officers at the ceremony for victims of Stalinist deportations.
LOCAL

At the Martyrs' Cross, Ungheni residents mourned the victims of Stalinist deportations

On Monday, 6 July, marking 77 years since the largest wave of deportations, dozens of Ungheni residents gathered at the Martyrs' Cross of the Nation, white flowers in hand. A memorial service, a moment of silence and a monologue about a night that has not ended yet. District council head Dionisie Ternovschi called keeping the memory alive a moral duty of every generation.

Ion Calmis·6 July 2026· News
Cows grazing on a hillside pasture in morning light, with a Moldovan village in the valley
NATIONAL

Money for milk sold, applications until 14 August: how many Ungheni farmers can actually get it

AIPA has opened the seventh call for direct payments in livestock farming — support per kilogram of milk sold in the second half of 2025, with applications until 14 August. On paper the sum is not small (the regulation's rate: 3 lei per kilogram of cow's milk, 5 lei for sheep's or goat's), but the conditions reserve it for authorised farms. And in Ungheni district, of the 1,738 cows left, only 195 are on farms; the rest, in people's yards, rarely reach the money.

Ion Calmis·6 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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A newly cast concrete manhole with a cast-iron cover, installed at the edge of a street in Cornești, with freshly dug earth around it and a passer-by on a path in the background.
PUBLIC SERVICES

How Cornești ran water and sewer pipes under the R1 highway: directional drilling, no trench

The Cornești town hall says it has completed the extension of the water and sewerage network on Ștefan cel Mare Street — work that included running the pipes under the R1 Chișinău–Ungheni national road, at kilometre 77+215, by drilling without opening a trench or closing the highway. The town's network was built through the “Satul European” programme, and centralised sewerage — which Cornești has — remains the rare part of Moldova's infrastructure.

Ion Calmis·6 July 2026· News
A footballer in a yellow-and-black kit runs with the ball on a village pitch, chased by opponents in blue and white, under a cloudy sky, with spectators along the touchline.
LOCAL

5-2 at Bumbăta, the biggest score of the «MAGIRUS» Cup quarter-final first legs

On Sunday, 5 July, all four first-leg matches of the quarter-finals of the Ungheni district football cup, «MAGIRUS», were played. According to the organiser, the Ungheni Territorial Football Association, FC Haiduc Bumbăta produced the round's biggest score — 5-2 against FC Barsa Ungheni — while FC Regina Maria Ungheni beat FC Unirea Cetireni 2-0. In the other two ties, FC Sculeni and FC Mănoilești won narrowly, 1-0 and 2-1, so everything will be decided in the return legs a week from now.

Ion Calmis·5 July 2026· News
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An outdoor university fair: young people browsing brochures at stands with university banners, in a square in the city centre.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

How a graduate from Ungheni can get a tuition-free place in Romania

The Romanian Universities Fair, now in its fifteenth edition, stopped in Ungheni on Saturday, 4 July — part of a tour through four cities of the Republic of Moldova. Beyond the stands, the stakes for an Ungheni graduate are concrete: the Romanian state offers thousands of tuition-free places each year, some with a stipend, at universities across the Prut, and Iași is less than 50 kilometres away. Here is what the «Romanians everywhere» programme offers, how to apply and what to watch for.

Ion Calmis·5 July 2026· Explainer
Young dancers in traditional embroidered blouses hold yellow bedstraw (sânziene) wreaths on the festival stage in central Ungheni.
LOCAL

«Sânziene Unghenene» moves downtown for its 7th edition and brings guests from Romania

The «Sânziene Unghenene» folk festival reached its seventh edition on Sunday, 5 July — held for the first time in the heart of the city, in the Scuarul Înfrățirii square and Piața Independenței, after the May floods left the island on Delia Lake unusable. Alongside the Palace of Culture's ensembles, the organisers brought honoured guests from Romania to Ungheni, among them folk singer Crina Prața from Turda, Cluj county.

Ion Calmis·5 July 2026· News