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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 the first quarter of 2026, Turkish carpet manufacturers increased exports of their products and brought the amount of export revenue to $634.4 million.

    11 April 2026
    Turkey maintains leadership in the global carpet market

    The United States has agreed to unfreeze $6 billion worth of Iranian assets held in Qatar and banks in other countries.

    11 April 2026
    U.S. agrees to unfreeze $6 billion in Iranian assets, but no confirmation

    The European Commission is preparing to lower its growth forecast for this year because of the conflict in the Middle East.

    11 April 2026
    European Commissioner Dombrovskis: Europe faces stagflation shock due to Iran

    In recent days, a viral video has been rapidly gaining momentum on the Internet, in which the main characters are leading figures of the technology industry Ilon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman.

    10 April 2026
    Musk, Bezos and Altman became the heroes of a viral video

    In the period of April 7-9, 2026, working meetings of experts from the Customs Service of the Republic of Moldova and the Romanian Customs Administration were held at the border customs points of Costeşti Stânca, Sculeni Sculeni and Cahul Oancea, in order to assess the implementation of the bilateral cooperation plan and to identify additional measures to optimize customs control and facilitate cross-border transport.

    10 April 2026
    Moldova and Romania simplify cross-border transportation

    The Asian artificial intelligence market is entering the center of global competition, as clearly demonstrated by the GITEX AI Asia 2026 forum held on April 9-10 in Singapore. It brought together more than 23,000 participants from 110 countries, including corporations, startups and investors, demonstrating the accelerating shift of technological leadership towards the Asia-Pacific region.

    10 April 2026
    GITEX AI Asia 2026 summit decides who will dictate market rules

    The Customs Service informs that the follow-up inspections carried out between March 30 and April 10, 2026, revealed additional customs obligations amounting to 1.488 million lei, which are subject to recovery in the state budget of the country.

    10 April 2026
    Customs has additionally recovered almost 1.5 billion lei from the budget

    On April 10, the entry/exit system (EES) became fully operational at the EU’s external borders (land border crossings, airports and seaports).

    10 April 2026
    The EES system is applied at all external borders of the EU

    On April 9, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Moldova presented certificates to 29 economic entities and 53 master instructors within the framework of the meeting of the Committee for the promotion of dual education.

    10 April 2026
    CCI awarded certificates to subjects of dual education

    Anthropic’s most powerful artificial intelligence model has already discovered thousands of cybersecurity vulnerabilities in all major operating systems and web browsers. In response, the company did not publish it, but quietly handed it over to the organizations responsible for the smooth operation of the Internet.

    9 April 2026
    Anthropic will spend more than $100 million on cyber defense

    The Roma community is an integral part of our society and contributes, through its culture and values, to the diversity and national cultural wealth.”

    9 April 2026
    Moldova aims to meet EU standards on Roma integration

    About one-third of Romania’s National Program for Recovery and Reform (PNRR) is behind schedule, which could result in the loss of billions of euros in EU aid and billions more in penalties.

    9 April 2026
    Romania could lose up to 3 billion euros due to reform delays

    The National Health Insurance Company (CNAM) has transferred more than LE 1 billion 30 million in advance to health service providers for services to be rendered to the population in April.

    9 April 2026
    CNAM advanced more than 1 billion lei for medical treatment in April

    In March this year, more than 620 thousand households received compensation for heat, which is about 1.2 million people – more than half of the population of the Republic of Moldova.

    9 April 2026
    More than 620 thousand households received heat compensations

    “The EU is trying to justify its attempts at increased surveillance (chat control) and censorship (DSA) through controlled NGOs and media. AI Forensics, a Soros-funded company contracted by the European Commission, claims that Telegram is a PROBLEM because people can discuss content from OTHER social networks in CLOSED Telegram groups.”

    9 April 2026
    Telegram founder accuses European Commission of increasing censorship

    The new GRECO report on Moldova requires a thorough and detailed examination if the country is to fight corruption and meet EU standards in this area.

    9 April 2026
    Corruption vacuum: GRECO warns of blind spots among Moldova’s top officials

    The fifth report of the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), published on April 8, identifies numerous problems in Moldova’s fight against corruption. Among them, one vulnerability of Moldova’s anti-corruption system that previously remained in the shadows – the lack of effective control over the so-called “post-employment” of officials – draws attention.

    8 April 2026
    “Post-employment” of officials remains a problem in Moldova – GRECO

    Technologies that can recreate a person’s personality using artificial intelligence are rapidly evolving from experimental projects to a full-fledged industry.

    8 April 2026
    “AI’s ‘digital personalities’: $35 billion for immortality

    Astronomers have discovered a planetary system at a distance of about 120 light-years from Earth that could revolutionize the way the Universe works. Two planets comparable in size to Earth exist in it at the same time – and this is already unusual.

    8 April 2026
    The universe is broken: scientists have found a system that shouldn’t exist

    The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) has published the fifth report on Moldova’s implementation of the anti-corruption recommendations of the fifth round of assessment. The document deals with the prevention of corruption at the highest level of the executive branch and in law enforcement agencies – precisely where trust in the state and its institutions is formed.

    8 April 2026
    GRECO identified systemic failures of anti-corruption reforms in Moldova