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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 participants in a working meeting inside the Ungheni Tourist Information Centre, next to a stand with tourist leaflets, shelves of books and diplomas.
LOCAL

Ungheni has a tourist centre worth 3 million lei, but accommodation capacity has dropped to a third of its 2008 level

The Tourist Information Centre in Ungheni — built with almost 3 million lei under the European «Mayors for Economic Growth» programme — hosted expert Alberto Cottica on Thursday in a meeting described as an «exchange of ideas», with no concrete purpose announced. Beyond the visit, the figures show the real stakes: the centre promotes tourism, but the district's accommodation capacity has fallen to a third of its 2008 level, while the programme that funded it has meanwhile entered its third phase.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· Explainer
A Centru Development Agency representative in a hi-vis vest studies plans with two men at a construction site; behind them, the metal frames of the new Ungheni market’s pavilions.
PUBLIC SERVICES

ADR Centru checked three sites in Ungheni: the market, the French Park and a 35-million-lei road to Plaiul Fagului

The Centru Regional Development Agency — the body through which the state spends money from the National Fund for Regional and Local Development — inspected three building sites in Ungheni district on 18 June. Alongside the already-known agri-food market and French Park, a third project surfaced: rebuilding the access road to the “Plaiul Fagului” reserve, worth about 35 million lei. Together it is tens of millions in public money — which the official statement no longer puts into figures.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· News
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Banknotes and coins on a wooden table, next to a calculator, a pen and a pay slip with blurred lines — illustrative image.
NATIONAL

Parliament ties the minimum wage to the average economy salary — and in Ungheni people earn 3,700 lei below the national average

Parliament voted for the adequacy of the minimum wage to be measured against 50% of the average economy salary — a European benchmark that shows just how low today's minimum really is. Set against the figures of Ungheni district, where the average salary is about 3,700 lei below the national average, the stakes are twofold: the «decency» threshold is still far off, and across the Prut the minimum wage is more than twice as high.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Aerial view over wooded hills in light morning mist, a green clearing and a dirt forest road — illustrative image.
NATIONAL

Moldova counts its forests for the first time in history. In Ungheni, no one officially knows even how much is left

The government has approved the first National Forest Inventory in the history of the Republic of Moldova — a five-year process worth 2.4 million euros, funded largely by Romania. Only then will the country know exactly how much forest it has. For Ungheni district the stakes are direct: official statistics publish no forest-cover percentage for the district, while the forests managed here — from the Plaiul Fagului reserve to the strips beside the villages — are quietly cut in winter for firewood.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
A team of rescuers in red suits prepares a rescue boat on a riverbank during a water-rescue exercise.
LOCAL

Six European countries rehearsed flood rescue on the Prut, in Ungheni district

A major European civil-protection exercise hosted by Moldova, “MD–EU MODEX 2026”, ended on 18 June. More than 250 rescuers from six countries — Poland, Germany, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and the Netherlands — spent three days working through realistic flood scenarios, one of the sites being the Prut river, in Ungheni district. The drill comes just a month after the Prut and local streams really did flood Cornova, Pîrlița and Vulpești.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· News
Participants seated around a seminar table, printed information materials in front of them and a projection screen reading «The Balance between Family and Work».
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Ungheni's social services and youth centre held a seminar on the family–work balance

The «YK ImPuls» youth health centre and the territorial social-assistance body held a training seminar on June 18 about parenting skills and the stress between work and family. The local stakes are not small: in 2024, Ungheni district recorded nearly 73 divorces for every 100 marriages, and the number of newborns fell by about 39% in six years.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· News
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