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A yellow school bus on a country road at dawn, with a rural school in the distance.
NATIONAL

The state will pay to bus teachers from merged schools. In 20 years, Ungheni district has lost 19 schools and nearly half its pupils

Teachers left without a school when their institution is reorganized will be bused to their new workplace at the state's expense — a measure the government approved on 24 June. It sounds technical, but it hits a nerve in a district like Ungheni: over two decades the number of schools fell from 65 to 46 and pupils from 20,121 to 11,171, and in 2026 the gymnasium in Buzduganii de Sus was shut down. Transport solves staff mobility, not the 73 teaching posts still vacant.

Ion Calmis·24 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
Illustration: a children's reading corner in a library — shelves of colourful books, open books on a low table and an armchair; warm light, no people in the frame.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

How Ungheni’s libraries hold on in a district with ever fewer children

A donation of children's books, made by writer Elena Vizir to a library in Ungheni, looks like a small gesture. Set against the official figures, it touches a nerve: over two decades, the book stock of the district's libraries has thinned by a quarter — and yet people use them more than fifteen years ago. In a district losing its young people, a library full of children is no longer a banality, but news.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· News
The porch of a traditional peasant house in Florițoaia Nouă: a carved wooden balustrade painted red, wooden pillars and door, a wall lime-washed in blue, windows with red frames and lace curtains.
LOCAL

What is lost when a village empties: a living peasant house in Florițoaia Nouă

The Culture Section published a few photographs from a peasant house kept intact in Florițoaia Nouă, in the Ungheni district — a porch with carved wooden pillars, a rail hung with woven cloths, an icon in the corner, a bread oven. It looks like a pretty gallery. Read with an ethnographer's eye, it is more: a grammar of how Moldovans once lived, kept alive by a single person, at a time when villages are emptying and houses are left without owners.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· Explainer