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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 apple orchard on hills at sunset, with rows of young trees and a cold-storage warehouse in the distance.
NATIONAL

Moldova negotiates 150 million euros for orchards and vineyards. How much can a district like Ungheni get, where plantations have thinned

Parliament has cleared the way for negotiations on a new European loan of 150 million euros, «Livada Moldovei II», for horticulture, viticulture and irrigation. The money is plentiful, but it comes as a loan, not a gift — and the first programme absorbed only three quarters of its funds. For the Ungheni district, where the area of orchards has fallen by a fifth in a decade, the real question is not how much is given nationally, but whether the money reaches here too.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Illustration: a solemn official hall, with an open booklet of a constitution on a polished table and a pen beside it; warm light, no people in the frame.
LOCAL

A woman took the oath of allegiance in Ungheni and became a citizen of Moldova

At the Ungheni District Council, in a solemn setting, with the national anthem, the district president confirmed the taking of the oath of allegiance by a new citizen of the Republic of Moldova — the exact legal moment at which someone becomes a citizen. Triunghi.md does not reveal her identity; but we use the occasion to explain a process that is rarely discussed: how, by which routes and for how many people Moldovan citizenship is acquired today — in a year when the numbers rose sharply.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· Explainer
Illustration: a prevention kit on a table — sealed sterile syringes in medical packaging, condoms, a rapid HIV test and a brochure — next to the bag of a mobile outreach team. No people in the frame.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Why the state now pays for HIV prevention among key groups in Ungheni

Needle exchange, HIV tests, counselling and tuberculosis screening — services that hundreds of people from key groups receive in Ungheni are now paid for from the prophylaxis fund of the National Health Insurance Company, not by foreign donors. Ungheni is named explicitly in a project won in February by the NGO Union for Equity and Health, part of a national package of 33 million lei for 2026–2028. A quiet but consequential shift: in a concentrated epidemic, prevention where the risk is highest protects everyone's health.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· Explainer
Illustration: a public-consultation room with a round table and empty chairs, a European Union flag standing in a corner; natural light from tall windows, no people in the frame.
EU & ROMANIA

What the EU anti-corruption chapter changes for businesses in Ungheni

On 15 June 2026, Moldova opened the «Fundamentals cluster» with the European Union — the negotiating package that includes justice and the fight against corruption and that sets the pace for the whole accession. Eleven days later, the conversation is set to reach Ungheni too: a regional consultation on anti-corruption reforms and European integration, organised by the Ungheni branch of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry together with the Centre for the Analysis and Prevention of Corruption. For a border town, the stakes are not abstract — they are visible right at the Sculeni customs point.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
An empty rural-school classroom with rows of wooden desks and a clean blackboard in the morning summer light.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

73 teaching posts stand empty in Ungheni's schools as the state offers up to 375,000 lei

On 17 June the Ministry of Education opened registration for the placement contest for young teachers for the 2026–2027 school year. In the official list of vacancies, Ungheni district has 73 unfilled teaching posts — the fifth-largest shortage in the country — spread across more than twenty schools and kindergartens, from town lyceums to village gymnasiums. Applications run from 1 to 17 July, and young specialists who choose to teach here can receive one-off payments of up to 375,000 lei.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· Explainer
Illustration: an open-air stage in a town square at dusk, festive string lights and graduation mortarboard caps thrown into the air; young people seen from behind, with no identifiable faces.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

In Ungheni, graduates take the stage in a district its young people are leaving

The Graduates' Ball returns to Ungheni on 18 June 2026, in Independence Square — a ceremony for the young people finishing high school, organised by the city hall together with the district council and the Education Directorate. Last year, the stage in the town centre gathered the graduates of all eight high schools in the district. Beyond the music and the diplomas, the event carries a stake the numbers state bluntly: Ungheni is losing its young people — for every class that climbs the stage, another has already left.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· News
The porch of a traditional peasant house in Florițoaia Nouă: a carved wooden balustrade painted red, wooden pillars and door, a wall lime-washed in blue, windows with red frames and lace curtains.
LOCAL

What is lost when a village empties: a living peasant house in Florițoaia Nouă

The Culture Section published a few photographs from a peasant house kept intact in Florițoaia Nouă, in the Ungheni district — a porch with carved wooden pillars, a rail hung with woven cloths, an icon in the corner, a bread oven. It looks like a pretty gallery. Read with an ethnographer's eye, it is more: a grammar of how Moldovans once lived, kept alive by a single person, at a time when villages are emptying and houses are left without owners.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· Explainer
Illustration: a bright art studio with colourful paintings on easels and a rolled diploma with a ribbon on a wooden table.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

80 young people graduated from Ungheni's art school, named after Raisa Cojocaru

The Art School in Ungheni held its 2026 graduation: 80 children and teenagers (74 from the fourth-year classes and 6 from the fifth year) finished their years of drawing, painting and sculpture, according to the City Hall. The school bears the name of Raisa Cojocaru, who led it for almost four decades, and has a tradition of over 57 years. And the stakes are higher than a ceremony: in a district that has lost more than half of its young people in twelve years, every generation trained at home counts.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· News
Illustration: a welcoming primary-school classroom, a teacher helping several different children at a table with books and colourful materials.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Twenty teachers from Ungheni and Călărași learn how to include children with special needs in class

A workshop run by CCF Moldova trained 20 teachers from ten schools in the Ungheni and Călărași districts to work better with parents and with children who have special educational needs. They, in turn, will train more than 120 colleagues. Beyond the event, Ungheni is one of the country's two pilot regions for inclusive education — and the road from the orphanage to the classroom next door has changed radically in recent years.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· News
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