Игорь Фомин, Author at logos-pres.md
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Игорь Фомин

Игорь Фомин

Journalist. Specialises in foreign economic activity, energy, small business, new technologies, ecology, cryptocurrencies, and investigative journalism. Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at Moldova State University. Has worked in various media outlets. In addition, he has been involved in entrepreneurship. Since 2001, he has been working for the economic review Logos-Press.

Articles

    Moldova has been waiting for more than three years for the start of negotiations on joining the EU, but during these years it has only drifted away from the European standards in all fields, says former Deputy Prime Minister and former Economics Minister Alexandru Muravski.

    20 March 2026
    Muravski: Moldova has drifted away from EU parameters in almost all directions

    Daily altcoin turnover on Binance has collapsed 80% from its peak to $7.7 billion, signaling waning investor interest, a Darkfost analyst said.

    20 March 2026
    Altcoin trading volumes collapsed by 80%

    Economic analyst Veaceslav Ionita drew attention to a worrying trend: the quality of the mortgage lending market is deteriorating in Moldova.

    20 March 2026
    Mortgage default rates are on the rise

    The National Energy Regulatory Agency (NERA) has set new maximum fuel prices that will be in effect from March 21 to 23.

    20 March 2026
    The price of diesel fuel has passed 29 lei

    After three-hour talks with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, U.S. Special Envoy John Cole said that President Donald Trump calls Lukashenko his friend and a respected world leader.

    20 March 2026
    Cole: Trump considers Lukashenko a good friend

    A new innovative mechanism introduced in the pilot mode of modernization of customs control is being tested at the Tudor border customs point.

    20 March 2026
    Customs Service is testing a new real-time digital control mechanism

    Austria wants to temporarily reduce the tax on mineral fuels: as a first step, the tax on diesel and gasoline is to be reduced by 5 euro cents per liter each, the Austrian federal government has announced.

    19 March 2026
    Austria and Italy decide to cut fuel taxes amid conflict in Iran

    The European Environment Agency (EEA) and its European Environmental Information and Observation Network (Eionet) today approved the Republic of Moldova as a partner country, thus expanding the EEA network to 32 member countries and 7 partner countries across Europe.

    19 March 2026
    Moldova became a partner of the European Environment Agency

    The steady increase in prices for oil products continues in Moldova.

    19 March 2026
    The price of gasoline exceeded 28 lei

    More than 400 participants took part (offline and online) in trainings dedicated to the implementation of projects financed under the Interreg VI-A NEXT Romania-Republic of Moldova 2021-2027 program, which took place in Chisinau.

    19 March 2026
    Interreg NEXT program with a budget of over 97 million euros brings the banks of the Prut closer together

    After the Fed kept the key rate in the range of 3.5-3.75% on March 18, the price of the first cryptocurrency fell below the $70,000 mark. Leading altcoins fell in price by 4-7% per day.

    19 March 2026
    Bitcoin has fallen below $70,000. Altcoins fell in price by 4-7%

    US President Donald Trump has vowed to “blow up everything” in Iran’s South Pars gas field if Tehran attacks Qatari gas fields again.

    19 March 2026
    Trump has vowed to blow up Iran’s largest gas field

    Employees of the Customs Service of the Republic of Moldova, led by prosecutors of the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS), seized more than 130 smuggled cars, most of which came from the European Union.

    19 March 2026
    Customs officers seized more than 130 smuggled cars

    ANRE has set new maximum prices for basic fuels that will be in effect tomorrow, March 19.

    18 March 2026
    Fuel continues to get more expensive

    Russian law enforcement authorities have uncovered a large-scale fraudulent scheme for illegal VAT refunds used when importing Moldovan apples into the Russian Federation.

    18 March 2026
    A criminal scheme to import Moldovan apples to Russia has been uncovered

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), in conjunction with the agency that oversees the commodities markets, has published informal guidelines it will use to classify cryptocurrency securities.

    18 March 2026
    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission does not recognize most cryptoassets as securities

    US President Donald Trump has called for an investigation into how Ukraine has been spending US-directed funds.

    18 March 2026
    Trump: US no longer spending money on Ukraine

    Moldova is on the 5th place in the ranking of European countries with the lowest prices for chicken eggs.

    18 March 2026
    Moldova is among the top five countries with the cheapest eggs

    The Government of the Republic of Moldova offers citizens an important opportunity to finance the modernization of individual houses. Within the second call for proposals Casa Verde (“Green House”), launched on March 18, 2026, another 1,000 households across the country will benefit from non-refundable financing of up to 200 thousand lei for energy-efficient modernization of their homes.

    18 March 2026
    Second phase of Casa Verde’s energy efficiency grant program launched

    Moldova was ranked among the top 20 countries in terms of projected GDP growth between 2026 and 2030.

    17 March 2026
    IMF expects record GDP growth in Moldova in the coming years