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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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Four adults in front of a white door, in a corridor; two of them wear police uniforms, and a woman is holding the scissors used to cut a red ribbon.
LOCAL

The children's hearing room at the Ungheni Police has not been used since 2017

The Ungheni Police Inspectorate has replied to the newsroom: in the minors' hearing room fitted out in 2014 — one of only two functional ones out of the eight opened across the country at the time — not a single child has been heard since 2017, because hearings take place at the Ungheni Court, before the investigating judge. The space inaugurated on 24 July and announced by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is a different one, cost around 42 thousand lei and is not meant for hearings: the police confirm it does not meet the requirements of article 110¹ of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The Barnahus-type centre for the Centre region is scheduled only by the end of 2027, and the integrated service that operates in Ungheni admits, under its regulations, women from the age of 18.

Ion Calmis·27 July 2026· News
A passage of play on a football pitch with dry grass, in evening light: players in fluorescent green and navy blue shirts chase the ball, with spectators and houses in the background.
LOCAL

Sculeni wiped out a 0–4, but the «MAGIRUS» Cup final in Ungheni is Mănoilești – Unirea Cetireni

The return legs of the semifinals in the Ungheni District Football Cup, the «MAGIRUS», were played on Sunday, 26 July, and settled both finalists. FC Mănoilești won 5–1 at Bumbăta and goes into the final 7–1 on aggregate. In the other semifinal, FC Sculeni led 4–0 at Cetireni at the end of the 90 minutes and had wiped out the entire first-leg lead, but FC Unirea Cetireni qualified on penalties, 5–3.

Ion Calmis·26 July 2026· News
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An off-road ATV parked on the shoulder of a rural regional road at dusk, with an electricity pole in the distance and an empty village lane
LOCAL

A 17-year-old girl died in an ATV crash in Stolniceni. Police are checking who gave her the vehicle

A 17-year-old girl died on Saturday evening in Stolniceni, Ungheni district, after the ATV she was driving ran off the road and hit an electricity pole. Police have opened a criminal case and say they will establish 'who allowed her access' to the vehicle. Contrary to a widespread impression, age alone does not make driving a quadricycle illegal — a B1 licence can be obtained from the age of 16; the investigation will clarify whether the teenager held a licence and whether the ATV was permitted on public roads. When the answer is 'no', the law does not look first at the driver, but at the person who entrusted her with the vehicle.

Ion Calmis·26 July 2026· NewsWHAT'S AT STAKE
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A renovated school building with a freshly thermally-insulated façade and a sign indicating public funding.
LOCAL

Whose money pays for the school renovations: in Costuleni, the district presents millions from the government as its own investments

The Ungheni District Council presented on Facebook the investments in the Todirești and Costuleni gymnasiums. The figures check out in documents — but at Costuleni, out of the roughly six-million-lei package, the district's own money is only the paving (531 thousand); the rest — the thermal insulation and the sanitary facilities — comes from the government and from the Ministry of Education. At Todirești, by contrast, the money really is the district's. All of it, five months before the reform takes these schools out of the District Council's subordination.

Ion Calmis·25 July 2026· Explainer
Graphic representation of an administrative map in which several localities merge into a single outline around a central city.
LOCAL

Ten localities, 42,000 residents: Ungheni Municipal Council votes to amalgamate into a single municipality

On July 24, the Ungheni Municipal Council met in an extraordinary session and, according to the Mayor's Office, adopted the decisions that open the way toward 'a new model of administrative organization' — the city's own step in the voluntary amalgamation with nine neighboring localities, one of the largest clusters of its kind in the country: 10 administrative-territorial units and about 42,316 residents, with Ungheni as the center. The text of the municipal decision had not yet been published in the state register at the time of this article.

Ion Calmis·25 July 2026· Explainer
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The giant screen at the UAE Warriors 72 arena in Abu Dhabi shows the portrait and fight photos of Moldovan athlete Pavel Andrușca, with the caption «Pavel Andrusca — Moldova».
LOCAL

8-0 and another KO in Abu Dhabi: Pavel Andrușca, trained in Ungheni, stays undefeated

Fighter Pavel Andrușca, who served his athletic apprenticeship at the Ungheni Sports School, won by first-round knockout at the UAE Warriors 72 gala in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, 23 July. The victory — his second in a row in one of the biggest MMA promotions in the Middle East — keeps his run perfect: eight matches, eight wins, six of them before the limit. We explain who he is and what an 8-0 record means in Moldovan MMA.

Ion Calmis·25 July 2026· News
A crowd of cheerful young people at an open-air evening concert, hands raised toward a stage lit with warm colored lights; a summer-festival atmosphere.
LOCAL

Twice a national "Youth Capital," Ungheni dedicates a week to a shrinking youth

From 10 to 16 August, the Ungheni city hall and the Municipal Youth Centre are holding "Youth Week" (ZiT 2026) around International Youth Day on 12 August. Ungheni has good reason to call itself a "city of youth" — it held the national title of Youth Capital twice, in 2011 and 2023. But the celebration takes place in a district the young leave first: the number of people aged 15–34 has halved over the past decade, faster than the national average. We explain what the event is, where the "city of youth" identity comes from, and why, here, a youth week is more than a summer party.

Ion Calmis·25 July 2026· Explainer
A family doctor's office in a health centre: on a wooden desk, a stethoscope, a blood-pressure monitor and an open medical chart, next to a bright window; a white cabinet with medical supplies in the background, in white and blue tones.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

What you can get for free from your family doctor in Ungheni: cancer screening, vaccines, TB checks

On 23 July, the director of the Ungheni Health Centre presented the district council with a mid-year report on primary healthcare for the first half of 2026. Beyond the report-style language, the five „priority directions” are, in fact, a list of prevention services any Ungheni resident can request for free — from the cervical cancer test to vaccines and tuberculosis screening. We explain what each one is, who is entitled to it, what is free and how to reach it through your family doctor — and why, in an ageing district where seven in ten people die of heart disease and cancer, prevention matters here more than the average.

Ion Calmis·25 July 2026· Explainer