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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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Team photograph: eleven footballers in red kit with black stripes, with the inscription Primăria Ungheni across the chest, six standing and five crouching, on the grass of a stadium; the goalkeeper wears a yellow shirt. In the background, blocks of flats and trees.
LOCAL

Two goals in first-half stoppage time: FCM Ungheni lost 1:3 in the season's opening match

The town's team opened its season on Saturday, at the municipal stadium, in front of 300 spectators — the biggest attendance of the round in Group A. Andrei Stratan opened the scoring in the 12th minute, but Vulturii Cutezători turned the match around with two goals in the 45+1 and 45+4 minutes, then sealed it in the 60th. After the first round, FCM Ungheni has zero points. Next match: Saturday, 8 August, away.

Ion Calmis·1 August 2026· News
Bar chart: the five amalgamation groups in Ungheni district, showing the number of administrative-territorial units and the population of each on 1 January 2026, plus the six mayoralties outside the five groups — among them Bușila, Chirileni and Negurenii Vechi, which have a group of their own, and Petrești, which rejected amalgamation.
LOCAL

Five amalgamation groups in Ungheni: 27 mayoralties inside, six outside them

The five amalgamation groups take in 27 of the 33 mayoralties in Ungheni district; six ended up outside them — three because they started a group of their own, one because it rejected the merger with reasons given. All the groups counted their population using 2024 figures — some 2,000 more people than there are today, with no effect on the legal threshold of 3,000 inhabitants.

Ion Calmis·1 August 2026· Analysis
Infographic with two groups of bars drawn to the same scale: above, the energy-efficiency procurements of public institutions in Ungheni raion, led by public lighting; below, their energy bill over the same period, dominated by electricity and heat.
LOCAL

19.16 million lei on energy in the schools and town halls of Ungheni raion. On audits, 74,500

Ungheni Raion Council signed the cooperation memorandum with the LEEN Moldova programme on 30 July. Public procurement data supply the figures: 19.16 million lei of energy contracted by the raion's town halls, lyceums and gymnasiums since 2023, 5.69 million invested in public lighting and 4.09 in boiler houses, and on thermal insulation actually carried out — not one leu out of these procurements. The energy audit, the first step of the method, appears twice in the whole raion, 74,500 lei. The memorandum asks for no membership fee, and its text is public: of the four signatories in the raion, two published it — Costuleni and the Raion Council.

Ion Calmis·31 July 2026· AnalysisWHAT'S AT STAKE
Explanatory diagram of the four checks carried out on entry into Romania at the Sculeni Border Crossing Point: the travel document, the Schengen Information System, the Interpol databases and the Entry/Exit biometric registration.
BORDER & TRANSPORT

Six detections at Sculeni in seven months. What the booth Ungheni residents cross actually checks

On 29 July, at the Sculeni Border Crossing Point, Romanian border police officers detained a citizen of the Republic of Moldova wanted under a European arrest warrant issued by Finland. The accusations have not been tried by any court. The case is the anchor of an explainer about what the booth through which Ungheni district leaves for the European Union actually checks — four layers of control and, since 2 March 2026, the facial image and four fingerprints.

Ion Calmis·30 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Project rendering of a promenade on a lake shore: a paved walkway, a red bike lane, long concrete benches with wooden slats, trees and blocks of flats in the background, with a few passers-by, a cyclist and a young man on a scooter.
LOCAL

39% of the first stage of Ungheni's Lake Delia promenade comes from Cluj

The Cluj-Napoca Local Council voted on 20 July to give 593,000 Romanian lei (RON) for the development of the promenade on Lake Delia in Ungheni. The financing agreement, annexed to the decision of the Ungheni Municipal Council, shows that the first stage costs €288,387.80 — about 5.8 million Moldovan lei (MDL) — and that the Cluj share amounts to €113,247.88, that is 39.3% of the total. The remaining 60.7% is paid by Ungheni. The contract was awarded back in May to SRL Balt-Cons of Pîrlița, for 5,759,683.36 Moldovan lei including VAT, and the request to Cluj had gone out as early as December.

Ion Calmis·29 July 2026· Analysis
Diagram of the rebuilt stretch of district road L389 in Ungheni, between the Romană — Alexandru cel Bun junction and the Oleg Ungureanu — Decebal junction, with the contract's key figures: 36.7 million lei, 2.14 kilometres, 17 139 lei per metre, 12 months of works, and the funding shares of 75% district / 25% town hall.
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36.7 million lei for 2.14 km: Ungheni's Alexandru cel Bun street goes into reconstruction

On 20 July the Consiliul raional Ungheni (the Ungheni District Council) awarded the contract for rebuilding the stretch between Romană street and the Oleg Ungureanu — Decebal junction, part of district road L389. The works cost 36 677 184 lei including VAT — 17 139 lei for every metre of street — and went to SA „Drumuri Bălți”, the only company that submitted a bid. The bill is not the district's alone, however: an agreement approved by the two councils splits the cost 75% district and 25% town hall, and the streets in question passed into district ownership only in 2023, handed over free of charge by the town.

Ion Calmis·28 July 2026· News
A freshly asphalted village road junction, with a stone kerb; at the roadside, two parked cars and a figure in the distance, and in the background a small square with a monument and a long public building with pink walls and a blue roof.
LOCAL

412,000 lei and three bids for the asphalted access to the post office and the cultural centre in Semeni

The village's community page announced last week that the access to the post office, the library and the cultural centre had been surfaced with asphalt, thanking the commune hall, HelpAge Moldova and the District Council. The procurement documents show the rest: the Zagarancea commune hall put out to tender a road section with access to the village post office and cultural centre, three firms submitted bids, and the contract was awarded to SRL “Balt-Cons” with 344,000 lei excluding VAT, below the estimate of 403,000 — that is 412,000 lei including VAT. The stake is at the other end: in Zagarancea commune, one in five residents has reached retirement age.

Ion Calmis·27 July 2026· News