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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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Illustration: a craft table seen from above, with quilling spirals, origami figures, a pressed-flower composition and strips of colourful paper.
LOCAL

At the Palace of Culture in Ungheni, young people discover rare crafts — origami, quilling and the art of pressed flowers

A creative workshop at the Palace of Culture gathered young people in Ungheni around four techniques with surprising stories: the Japanese folding of paper, the paper filigree once rolled on goose quills, the «painting» from pressed flowers once practised by samurai, and découpage. Beyond a pleasant afternoon, the workshop says something about what the town still offers its young people — in a district they are leaving.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· News
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Two workers assemble the formwork of a water-retention basin on the building site of the French Park in Ungheni; in the background, trees and machinery.
PUBLIC SERVICES

The French Park in Ungheni is changing its face: skatepark, padel and 5,217 m² of sports grounds on the bank of the Prut

The largest green space in the Ungheni municipality is a full building site. Besides the underground networks, the parkour zone, the skatepark and the water-retention basins are already taking shape, and on about 4 hectares there will be sports grounds — including for padel — playgrounds, cycling paths and running tracks. The money comes from two projects, one European and one national, and the healthy trees stay in place: the park was scanned by drone before the works.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· News
Illustration: a young female entrepreneur checks documents next to a laptop showing charts, in a bright small shop.
ECONOMY & FEZ

Ungheni hosts three days of free training for first-time entrepreneurs from four districts

On 14–16 July, in Ungheni, people who want to start a business — or have just started one — from the Ungheni, Fălești, Nisporeni and Călărași districts can learn for free, from specialists, how to keep a firm afloat. The programme, funded from European money, has reached its eighth round. The hook isn't festive, though: in the Ungheni district, businesses employed over 700 fewer people in 2024 than in 2021, and wages remain a fifth below the national average.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· News
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Illustration: a volleyball player hits the ball at the net in a bright sports hall, with spectators in the stands.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

The «Hippocrates Cup» returns to Ungheni: a second women's volleyball tournament honouring medics

On Sunday, 21 June, on Medical Worker's Day, the Ungheni Sports School hosts the second edition of the «Hippocrates Cup» women's volleyball tournament — a contest launched last year by the Ungheni Health Centre with four teams and now billed as «republican». Behind the celebration, though, lies a harsher reality: over eight years the district has lost 26 doctors and 94 nurses, and the district hospital has 25 vacant doctor posts.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· News
The hands of an elderly person and a younger one holding a small house together, against a hillside village in autumn light
NATIONAL

In Ungheni, one in four people is a pensioner. Who really pays for the pensions and the hospital

Moldova's pensions and healthcare ran nearly 67 billion lei through the system in 2025, and parliament reviewed the execution reports on Monday. Behind the announced 'surplus' lies an ever harder arithmetic: 1.18 workers support one pensioner, and the pension fund only stays afloat because 41% of the money comes from the state budget. An ageing, largely rural district like Ungheni — 19,709 pensioners and a population down by a fifth in a decade — feels this pressure more acutely than the average. And it is here that the trap of the unpaid health policy hits hardest.

Ion Calmis·16 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
The massive concrete pier of the new road bridge, rising from the Prut riverbed; above it, the deck under construction and a work platform, while a second pier is visible on the opposite bank.
BORDER & TRANSPORT

The Prut bridge at Ungheni is almost ready. But you won't be able to cross it until 2028

The pair of bridges over the Prut, from Ungheni to Zagarancea, will be ready around autumn 2026. Crossing the Prut on them, though, won't open together with the bridge: the customs complex, the border control point and the access roads still have to be built — a second phase with a 2028 horizon. On the Romanian bank the work is contracted and awaiting its permit; on the Moldovan bank, beyond European money promised since 2023 and two land transfers in 2026, there is still no contractor, no contract and no deadline.

Ion Calmis·16 June 2026· Explainer
Illustration: an empty classroom with rows of desks, a green chalkboard and daylight from the windows, without pupils or a teacher.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

How the state is trying to bring young teachers into Ungheni district's schools

Ungheni district enters the new school year with dozens of unfilled teaching posts — among the most in the country. The Ministry of Education is betting on money — up to 375,000 lei — on benefits and on a dedicated campaign to bring young teachers into the district's schools.

Ion Calmis·16 June 2026· Explainer
Illustration: young people talking with company representatives at booths during a job fair in a bright hall.
ECONOMY & FEZ

In Ungheni, the number of young people has halved in 11 years — and a job fair is looking for a reason to keep them

On Thursday, 25 June, a youth NGO and volunteers run a job fair for young people in Ungheni. The event lasts three hours; the problem it touches has lasted a decade. The number of 15–34-year-olds in the district has halved since 2014, wages are almost a fifth below the national average, and nearly a third of the region's young people are neither in school nor at work. And yet jobs do exist — the paradox that, in fact, tells the whole story.

Ion Calmis·16 June 2026· Analysis
An inspector of the Environmental Protection Inspectorate, with "IPM" written on his back, stands in an inflatable boat by the Prut bank and checks a man whose face is blurred, during a raid against illegal fishing.
LOCAL

In Ungheni, a Prut river raid shows what stays banned for fishing after the spawning ban

Environmental inspectors from Ungheni and the Border Police carried out fresh raids against illegal fishing on the Prut under the "TRITON 2026" operation and issued penalties — without saying how many. Yet on the Prut the spawning ban had ended on 7 June, so recreational fishing is allowed again. What remains banned are poaching gear, protected species and fishing without the border-zone access permit — with fines from 300 to 4,500 lei for individuals.

Ion Calmis·16 June 2026· Explainer