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Dmitry Kalak

Dmitry Kalak

Editor-in-chief, journalist and analyst. Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at Moldova State University and the Faculty of International Relations at the Academy of Public Administration under the Government of the Republic of Moldova. Over 40 years of experience in journalism. For more than 20 years, he wrote about Moldova's foreign economic relations. One of the first in Moldova to write about European integration. Since 2016, editor of the newspaper Economic Review Logos Press, and since 2024, editor of the Logos Press portal. Twice named one of Moldova's top 10 journalists. In 2018, he received the ‘Person of the Year in Mass Media’ award from the Personalitatea Foundation. He taught ‘Investigative Journalism’ at the International Free University (ULIM). He is the co-author of the textbooks ‘Economic Journalism’ and ‘Investigative Journalism’. He is the author of the book ‘Statesman’ from the series ‘Personality of the Country’ about former Minister of Defence and former Ambassador to Poland Boris Gamurar.

Articles

    In recent years, the issue of energy supply has been on the agenda, and before the beginning of each winter season it acquires certain alarming signs. But this winter Moldova meets surprisingly calmly – without hints of another crisis and without heated political discussions around the problem of gas and electricity supplies. Is it so, have all the pitfalls in the energy sector been overcome? Energy Minister Dorin Zhungietu answered these and other questions to Logos Press.

    5 December 2025
    Dorin Jungietu: Moldova has achieved the main thing – continuity of energy supply and market diversification

    A modern vocational training center, TechZone, created by FEZ “Balti”, will be launched in Chisinau on December 5. The project aims to overcome one of the key obstacles to the growth of the industrial sector – the lack of qualified labor force and practical skills-oriented educational infrastructure.

    5 December 2025
    TechZone is an important step towards industrialization of the country

    Two significant news appeared in the public space on Thursday, November 27. First, the People’s Assembly of ATU Gagauzia set the date for the elections of the new legislative body of the autonomy. They will be held on March 22, 2026, and the second round will be held on April 5, 2026.

    28 November 2025
    Gagauzia has scheduled elections, but has not decided on a choice

    Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu’s visit to Brussels was rather symbolic – to show the unconditional priority of European integration for the new government (as well as the previous visit to Bucharest – to demonstrate the continuation of close ties).

    21 November 2025
    Brussels urged Chisinau to “real transformation”

    The first issue of Logos Press was published on November 15, 1990. There was no independent Moldova yet, no market economy, no private media.

    14 November 2025
    Mirror of the Moldovan economy. Logos Press is 35 years old!

    One of the most destructive earthquakes in the history of Turkey on February 6, 2023 was called “the disaster of the century” by American publications. This earthquake is second only to a similar disaster in Cilicia in 1268 in terms of the number of deaths and the scale of destruction on the modern territory of the country. The direct financial losses of the Turkish economy alone are estimated at $104 billion.

    8 November 2025
    “Catastrophe of the Century” in Turkey was the impetus for the “transformation of the century,” or how Turkey is recovering from the devastating 2023 earthquake

    Recent statistics have been nonchalantly recording the outflow of investments from Moldova. In early October, UNCTAD published a report on investment flows, according to which the volume of foreign direct investment (FDI) attracted to Moldova in 2024 was 3.6% less than a year earlier, amounting to $357 million. As a result, accumulated investments during the year fell from $5.46 billion in 2023 to $5.39 billion.

    18 October 2025
    Marin Ciobanu: Attracting investments should be an unconditional priority of the new government

    ProWein Düsseldorf remains one of the leading and most authoritative wine and spirits industry shows in the world. The experts are unanimous: anyone who wants to be successful on the international market should go to Düsseldorf, because the important people in the industry gather here.

    4 October 2025
    Michael Mandel: ProWein Düsseldorf is the way to the EU wine market

    The parliamentary elections were over and the ruling Action and Solidarity party could breathe a sigh of relief: sole rule was assured for another four years.

    3 October 2025
    Shock from the US State Department: corruption and lack of real reforms in Moldova

    The ruling Action and Solidarity (PAS) party is winning the Sept. 28 elections and is well positioned to form a parliamentary majority and appoint a one-party government, Logos Press reported.

    29 September 2025
    The PAS party won the election and may get a majority in parliament

    “The prospects for the development of the Moldovan economy remain uncertain due to the presence of many constraints and the lack of multilateral and well-thought-out plans for progressive development.” This was stated by Marin Ciobanu, chairman of the Association of Employers of the Manufacturing Industry (APIP), at a meeting of the Economic Press Club on September 23.

    27 September 2025
    Marin Ciobanu: Progressive economic growth requires synergy of industrialization, investment and innovation

    Every next election in Moldova raises the degree of tension among the participants of the electoral process, politicians, experts and even external partners. To listen to them, one can believe that the struggle is not for warm seats in the parliament, but for the redistribution of the world, at least. And if one or the other is not elected, the world will turn upside down, life will end, the future will fade…. In short, there will be a complete apocalypse.

    26 September 2025
    Another election of hopefuls

    The bilateral RM-EU screening process ended on September 22, during which more than 100 thousand pages of Moldovan normative and legislative acts were analyzed for compliance with the European legislation during 15 months, – reports Logos-Press.

    23 September 2025
    Screening with the EU is complete, reforms need to continue

    Since the beginning of 2025, the euro has grown against the dollar by 13%, which is the maximum for the last 4 years. In this connection, economists have started talking about the “euro moment” in global finance and a new stage in the search for an alternative to the dollar, Logos Press reports.

    15 September 2025
    “Euro Momentum” in global finance

    The countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) have agreed to establish the SCO Development Bank and seek fundamental reform of the international financial architecture, Logos Press reported.

    2 September 2025
    SCO countries set up a Development Bank

    The issue of security for Ukraine is of key importance for the whole of Europe, so the EU and the US should speak with one voice on this issue, Logos Press reported.

    19 August 2025
    EU and US leaders agree on security guarantees for Ukraine

    The Eurozone continues to lag behind the U.S. in output growth and productivity, but economic trends are shifting in Europe’s favor, according to Logos Press.

    15 August 2025
    Goldman Sachs: investor sentiment shifts in favor of Europe

    The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry (MAIA) has agreed with the country’s winemakers to request in negotiations with the EU a transition period of up to 10 years to expand vineyard areas of technical varieties, Logos Press reported.

    11 August 2025
    “Delicate issues” of EU legislation for winemakers

    The Bashkan of Gagauzia, Eugenia Gutsul, was sentenced on August 5 by the judge of the Buiucani sector of the Chisinau court, Anna Cucerescu, to 7 years of imprisonment and confiscation of property worth about 41 million lei.

    8 August 2025
    Gutsul case: “point of no return” or a new chance for Chisinau and Comrat?

    The Constitution of the Republic of Moldova was adopted on July 29, 1994. In most countries of the world Constitution Day is one of the most important state holidays. Because it is the main symbol of the sovereignty and legal character of the state, where all rights and freedoms of citizens are protected by the Fundamental Law of the country.

    1 August 2025
    The Forgotten Constitution