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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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An ashtray with a stubbed-out cigarette on the windowsill of an apartment block, a no-smoking sign blurred in the background, morning light
NATIONAL

From 24 June, smoking in a block's stairwell or on your own balcony becomes an offence. An Ungheni resident risks up to 2,250 lei

A national law (no. 125/2025) sharply widens, from 24 June, the list of places where smoking is banned — from sports grounds, bus stops and beaches to apartment-block stairwells and your own balcony — and raises the fines: up to 2,250 lei for a person and up to 15,000 for a company, with suspension of activity. The police write the ticket. In a town where almost one adult in three smokes, one question is left hanging: where will people still be allowed to smoke? Ungheni City Hall promised a list of designated spots — but has not published it yet.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
A study desk with an open laptop on a video call with several windows, next to French textbooks, an open dictionary, a notebook with notes and small flags of France and the Republic of Moldova — illustrative image.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

In Ungheni, an agro-industrial college brought students closer to French through an online project with schools in Romania and Orhei

The Agro-Industrial College in Ungheni has completed a cross-border online education project dedicated to the French language and Francophonie, together with two schools in Romania and one in Orhei. The project runs against the current: in the Moldovan school, French has dropped from the most studied foreign language some fifteen years ago to just one in three students today.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· News
Several people at a working table, with Civitas Foundation materials and a European project banner, during the study visit in Cluj-Napoca.
LOCAL

What an Ungheni delegation is learning in Cluj about talking to citizens — right amid the merger of town halls

A delegation from Ungheni district, coordinated by the “Inovații Sociale” association, is on a study visit in Cluj-Napoca devoted to dialogue with citizens and cooperation between town halls and civil society. The visit is part of an EU-funded programme and lands exactly as the district is redrawing its map of town halls — where consulting people is the very point in dispute.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· Explainer
Illustration: a children's reading corner in a library — shelves of colourful books, open books on a low table and an armchair; warm light, no people in the frame.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

How Ungheni’s libraries hold on in a district with ever fewer children

A donation of children's books, made by writer Elena Vizir to a library in Ungheni, looks like a small gesture. Set against the official figures, it touches a nerve: over two decades, the book stock of the district's libraries has thinned by a quarter — and yet people use them more than fifteen years ago. In a district losing its young people, a library full of children is no longer a banality, but news.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· News
Illustration: a local council meeting room with chairs and a U-shaped table, empty; sober light, no people in the frame.
LOCAL

Seven councillors demand a new vote on the Măcărești–Ungheni merger that failed in council

The project under which the commune of Măcărești would merge with the municipality of Ungheni did not gather the required votes in the Communal Council on 16 June — even though, a few days earlier, a citizens' assembly had approved it. At the request of a group of councillors, the mayor convened an extraordinary session for 22 June, with a single item on the agenda. It is the first visible blockage in the cluster of localities the municipality of Ungheni is gathering around itself.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· News
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A modern, empty classroom with rows of wooden desks, a clean blackboard and a stack of notebooks on the teacher's desk in warm morning light — illustrative image.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

An Ungheni high school went through a national program for principals, against a shortfall of 73 teachers in the district

The management team of the «Mihai Eminescu» high school in Ungheni was among the roughly 13 institutions in the country included in the «Investim în directori» program, whose closing conference took place on June 17. The program, run by the ministry and the National Institute for Education and Leadership, bet on training school leadership — in a system that is losing teaching staff, while in Ungheni 73 positions remain unfilled, three of them precisely at «Eminescu».

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· News
An old wooden freight wagon on rusty tracks at dusk, with a worn suitcase on the empty platform.
NATIONAL

The state compensates assets confiscated by the Soviet regime. In Ungheni, the memory of the deportations counts thousands of names

The Government has allocated over 1.8 million lei to compensate six people whose assets the communist regime confiscated. The sum is small, but it opens a door to a vast and unfinished reckoning: in the Ungheni district alone, the official catalogue of the victims of totalitarianism gathers thousands of names, from more than 60 localities. The law gives victims and heirs the right to compensation — but how many actually claim it?

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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A mobile phone, a SIM card and a generic identity document on a dark wooden table, in dramatic light.
NATIONAL

A SIM card only with your ID: what the new anti-fraud measure changes, and why an ageing district like Ungheni is a target

The Government has decided that prepaid SIM cards will be activated only on the basis of an identity document, to cut into the anonymity used by scammers. Telephone and online fraud has exploded — from 40 million lei in 2023 to over 272 million in 2025. For a district like Ungheni, with many elderly people left alone while their relatives are abroad, the measure touches a nerve: here a woman was tricked out of more than 436,000 lei, and the most exposed are precisely those over 66.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
Illustration: the warm, bright interior of a small home — a sofa, a wooden table, a curtained window and plants; a domestic, homely atmosphere, no people in the frame.
PUBLIC SERVICES

A home in Sculeni, part of a reform moving people out of institutions into the community

One of the eight community homes for people with severe intellectual disabilities in Moldova is in Sculeni, Ungheni district. It is part of a cross-border project funded by the European Union, which is modernising 12 social buildings, and in June the homes' staff were trained in ethics, person-centred care and crisis de-escalation. Behind it lies a quiet but profound reform: moving people out of large institutions into small homes in the community. It is advancing slowly — and that is why it is worth watching.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· Explainer