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Gabriel Mironiuc, an 11-year-old boy, with a bronze medal round his neck and a small Moldovan tricolour in his hand, holding an award, next to an organiser, in front of the banners of the “Open Bohumín” festival.
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Gabriel Mironiuc, an 11-year-old from Ungheni, wins a prize at the international chess tournament in Bohumín

Gabriel Mironiuc, an 11-year-old pupil at the “Alexandr Pușkin” Lyceum in Ungheni, was the best-placed player from the Republic of Moldova in his section at the “Open Bohumín” international chess festival, held in July in the Czech Republic. The section — a classical FIDE-rated tournament — had 26 participants. Ungheni City Hall announced a bronze medal for him. He trains at the Ungheni Sports School — a town with a chess tradition that hosted, in 2021, a simultaneous exhibition with former world champion Anatoly Karpov.

Ion Calmis·12 August 2026· News
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Illustration: a village lane with a dirt road, a plank fence and the closed wooden gate of a homestead, against a backdrop of hills, in warm summer light.
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Third rabies outbreak in Ungheni district in two weeks: restrictions in Costuleni

A case of rabies has been confirmed in the village of Costuleni, Ungheni district — the third outbreak in the district after Rezina and Măgurele, in less than two weeks. Decision No. 1/E of 11 August, the first of the newly established crisis-management commission, approved a plan of 14 anti-epizootic measures: a census of animals within five days, a halt to the movement of animals in the village for 30 days, emergency vaccination and stepped-up hunting of foxes and jackals. The restrictions lift 30 days after the last case. Rabies vaccination of dogs and cats remains compulsory across the district, and any bite means a trip to the doctor the same day — the prophylaxis is free.

Ion Calmis·12 August 2026· News
Vladimir Bolea, Minister of Infrastructure (left), and Vitalie Vrabie, Mayor of Ungheni, in front of the old station building in Ungheni, with a large, worn glass facade.
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The Ungheni station, promised to the City Hall: an announcement without an act, money or deadline

On August 11, in Ungheni, Vladimir Bolea, the Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development, announced that the bus and railway station will be transferred to the City Hall and turned into a multimodal hub, and the mayor, Vitalie Vrabie, promised swift investments. What that means, concretely: the public registers contain no decision — neither of the Municipal Council nor of the Government — on the transfer; the ministry's official press release from the same day does not even mention the station; and the contested routes from „Slavena” continue to depart from the same parking lot. Why a sentence spoken on the ground changes, for now, nothing on substance.

Ion Calmis·11 August 2026· Explainer
White minibuses lined up on a paved parking lot at a commercial center; on the right, a red-and-black container booth standing in for a ticket office.
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The Slavena bus station in Ungheni: what the ANTA Order and the Municipal Council's decisions show

The Slavena bus station at Decebal 19/B in Ungheni has been registered with ANTA since September 2025, the agency confirms at the request of Triunghi.md. The applicable regime is notification, not authorization; the revocation of the Municipal Council's decision does not constitute grounds for removal from the register. The City Hall, which requested the removal, issued positive endorsements in 2026 for routes from the same bus station. The Council's urban-planning objections — commercial zone, no zonal plan, safety — fall outside ANTA's competence.

Ion Calmis·10 August 2026· Explainer
Award ceremony on a sports field: children holding diplomas and medals on a podium in the colors of the flag, flanked by coaches, in front of a banner reading “Freestyle Wrestling Tournament «Andrian and Nicolae Pascaru»” and the portraits of two men.
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17 medals for Ungheni at the “Pascaru” freestyle wrestling tournament in Semeni

The athletes of the Ungheni Sports School won 17 medals — 8 gold, 3 silver and 6 bronze — at the international “Nicolae and Andrian Pascaru” freestyle wrestling tournament, hosted on Sunday, 9 August, by the village of Semeni in Zagarancea commune. The sixth edition of the children's and juniors' competition brought together athletes from five countries — the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Estonia and the United States — and had a commemorative character. The tournament is organized by the Ungheni Sports School and the Zagarancea commune town hall, with the support of the Ungheni District Council.

Ion Calmis·10 August 2026· News
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Three members of the Ungheni town delegation sit at a conference-room table beside a UCare project banner bearing the Interreg and European Union logos and the list of partners.
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Ungheni leads a 1.47-million-euro European project on "green infrastructure". What it means and why it matters for the town

The town of Ungheni is not just taking part but leading "UCare" — a 1.47-million-euro European project that helps Black Sea Basin towns cope with heat, drought and floods through "green infrastructure": parks, trees, wetlands and surfaces that let water soak into the ground. A team from the Town Hall has just returned from a working meeting in Tulcea (3–6 August). Here is what the term means, who the partners are and what it brings, concretely, for the people of Ungheni.

Ion Calmis·10 August 2026· Explainer
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A passage of play on an artificial pitch: a footballer in a red-and-black kit, with the words Primăria Ungheni across the chest, dribbles the ball chased by an opponent in a green kit. In the background, the referee in black, other players, a small stand and a three-storey building.
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Equalised from the penalty spot in the 90+1 minute, FCM Ungheni claim their first point: 1:1 with Spartanii-Sportul

In the second round of Liga 1, FCM Ungheni led from the last minute of the first half until the very last minute of the match: Florin Cojocaru converted a penalty in the 45+1 minute, and the equaliser came from the penalty spot too, in the 90+1 minute, through Devonte Marlon J Richards. 1:1 at the end of a 'home' match moved to a neutral ground in Chișinău. It is the season's first point for the town's team, which remains 5th in the group. The next match is at home, on Saturday, 15 August, against CF Univer.

Ion Calmis·9 August 2026· News
Workers in «Servicii Comunale Ungheni» T-shirts lay grey paving on a new parking lot on Decebal Street in Ungheni, next to a road sign pointing to Nisporeni.
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A new parking lot on Decebal Street in Ungheni: merchants bought the 46,000-lei paving, the city hall paid for the labour

On Decebal Street, across from the former boarding school, a public parking lot is being built through a cofinancing arrangement: nearby merchants and entrepreneurs bought 175 square metres of paving, worth 46,000 lei, while Ungheni City Hall paid for the labour and the other materials. The work, carried out by Servicii Comunale even on a Saturday, addresses a real problem for the town — parking spaces.

Ion Calmis·8 August 2026· News
Illustration: the valley of the Prut river at sunset, with an old iron bridge over the water and wooded hills on both banks.
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What the «Prut heritage strategy» that Ungheni is developing with Iași really is

Ungheni City Hall has announced that it has begun drawing up a strategy for harnessing the cultural heritage of the Middle Prut Valley for 2027–2033. Behind the wording lies a concrete European project: «Gateways for the sustainable integration of the culture of the Middle Prut Valley into European tourist routes», funded through the cross-border Interreg NEXT Romania–Republic of Moldova programme, in which Ungheni is the lead and Iași the partner. The first of the five August working sessions, on 4 August, brought together online over 60 participants from about 50 institutions on both banks of the Prut. A first inventory found approximately 2,500 cultural sites across ten districts of Moldova and three counties of Romania.

Ion Calmis·8 August 2026· Explainer
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