Founder and Editor-in-Chief
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.
Stage director Edgar Bunea has been promoted to artistic director of the Ungheni Palace of Culture and introduced to staff by the institution's director, Silvia Zagoreanu. He will continue to lead the TeatrUngheni troupe, which he founded.
In May, a 55-year-old Ungheni woman was convinced to "invest" on an online platform. The cash was collected from her in Ungheni by two young men from the left bank of the Nistru — the local link in a scheme that caused 270 million lei in damage nationwide last year.
The government has approved an agricultural subsidy programme for 2026–2030 under which the annual fund grows from 2.3 to 5.3 billion lei. Nearly three quarters of the money goes to investment rather than per-head livestock payments, and the new EU-style conditions require farmers to keep records that many small producers simply don't have. For a farming, largely rural district like Ungheni, the subsidy becomes a tool for modernisation — but also a filter.
The government is preparing the most sweeping local-administration reform in years: a 3,000-resident threshold for a viable town hall, voluntary amalgamation of localities and the reduction of the 32 districts to 10. Nationwide, more than 700 decisions to launch the process have already been adopted. A newsroom calculation shows that, in Ungheni district, 23 of the 33 town halls fall below the proposed threshold. Five villages in the district are already discussing a merger, and the mayors' association is warning against forced amalgamation.
