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

    Tens of thousands of Romanian citizens from the Republic of Moldova were left without identity cards after legislative changes blocked their access to the documents. Now the Romanian authorities are proposing a quick and unexpected solution: the introduction of electronic identity cards. What this change entails and who it will help.

    7 April 2026
    Romania proposes digitalization of Moldovan citizens’ annulled bulletins

    Anthropic, an American artificial intelligence (AI) technology company founded by former OpenAI employees and creator of a family of large language models collectively named Claude, has announced a partnership with Google and Broadcom for “several gigawatts” of next-generation TPU computing power planned to launch starting in 2027.

    7 April 2026
    Bitcoin miners face a new competitor for cheap electricity

    The Moldovan government has suspended tenders for major infrastructure projects due to rising energy prices, Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development Vladimir Bolea said on the air of a Moldovan TV channel.

    7 April 2026
    Bolea: tenders for major infrastructure projects suspended

    At a White House press conference on developments in Iran, Donald Trump was outraged that Australia, Japan, South Korea and NATO as an organization did not help the U.S. and Israel in the war.

    7 April 2026
    Trump took offense to Australia, Japan and South Korea

    The National Energy Regulatory Agency (NERA) has set new maximum fuel prices that will be in effect tomorrow, April 8.

    7 April 2026
    Diesel price continues to break records

    Donald Trump has declined an invitation to come to the Bucharest Nine summit in the Romanian capital scheduled for May 13.

    6 April 2026
    Trump is not coming to Bucharest

    Romania no longer supplies gas to Ukraine.

    6 April 2026
    Romania halts gas supplies to Ukraine

    The National Energy Regulatory Agency has set new fuel prices for tomorrow, April 7, 2026.

    6 April 2026
    The price of diesel fuel has passed 34 lei

    The first cryptocurrency will collapse to $10,000 if buyers can’t overcome and hold the $75,000 level.

    6 April 2026
    Bloomberg analyst predicts bitcoin collapse to $10,000

    Donald Trump has issued a new ultimatum to Iran, giving it time to open the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday or Tehran will face a “Power Plant Day” and “Bridge Day.”

    6 April 2026
    One day left. Then Trump will “blow it all up and take the oil.”

    The Republic of Moldova ranks 110th (out of 209) in the world in terms of agricultural land area. We have 9,421 square miles for agricultural purposes.

    6 April 2026
    How much agricultural land is there in the world and Moldova

    A total of eight countries, namely Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania and Poland, reported PM2.5 concentrations exceeding 15 micrograms per cubic meter, well above the 5 µg/m³ level considered safe by WHO.

    6 April 2026
    Moldova among European countries with the most polluted air

    At the customs point “Ocnita – railway” in the presence of the heads of the Customs Service of Moldova, where the functionality of the scanning system Nuctech TMRF 6010, designed for the inspection of goods transported by rail, was analyzed.

    5 April 2026
    Ocnica tested a railroad scanner donated by China 8 years ago

    Quantum computers capable of hacking the bitcoin blockchain do not currently exist. However, developers are already considering a wave of updates to create a defense against the potential threat, and it is justified because the threat is no longer hypothetical.

    5 April 2026
    How to protect bitcoin from theft with quantum computers

    Donald Trump promised to “unleash all hell” on Iran if it did not open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours. Tehran refused and promised to “send the US president himself to the depths of hell”.

    5 April 2026
    Iranian authorities have sharply rejected Trump’s new ultimatum

    The Republic of Moldova has crossed the threshold of 1 GW of installed renewable energy (RE) capacity, reaching 1,023.42 MW. This achievement reflects the accelerated development of domestic renewable electricity generation capacity.

    4 April 2026
    Installed capacity of renewable energy sources exceeded 1 GW

    Google’s Quantum AI team said earlier this week that a future quantum computer would be able to derive a bitcoin private key from a public key in about nine minutes. The figure was widely circulated on social media and caused concern in the markets.

    4 April 2026
    A third of all bitcoins are at risk of being stolen

    The White House has requested $152 to return the former prison island of Alcatraz to the current prison service.

    4 April 2026
    Trump requested $152 million to rebuild Alcatraz prison, closed in 1969

    Moldovan wine company Purcari Wineries said Friday that its Romanian subsidiary Crama Ceptura has signed an agreement for the full acquisition of the Romanian company CaraprodVin, located in the commune of Varstecoiu, Vrancea county.

    4 April 2026
    Moldova’s Purcari acquires Romanian company CaraprodVin

    At an extraordinary meeting on Friday, the Romanian government approved a draft emergency decree aimed at reducing the excise tax on diesel fuel by 30 bani (about 1 Moldovan leu), which will directly reduce the price at gas stations.

    3 April 2026
    Romanian government reduced excise duty on diesel fuel