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Igor Fomin

Igor Fomin

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

    Thanks to the digital transformation of government services, starting and running a business in the Republic of Moldova is becoming easier and easier. Today, entrepreneurs have online access to the services they need to start and run a business through the EVO app and portal, without having to visit service counters or use paper documents.

    29 June 2026
    More than 78% of government services for businesses are now available on EVO

    A non-resident foreign national was detained for violating customs laws after she failed to declare the goods she was carrying during a customs inspection upon entering the country.

    29 June 2026
    Customs officials discovered undeclared jewelry at the airport

    500 million Romanian lei (nearly 2 billion Moldovan lei) have been allocated for the electrification of the railway between Iași and the border with the Republic of Moldova. Half of the project will be financed by European funds (under the Connecting Europe Facility program), and the remainder will be covered by Romania’s national budget.

    29 June 2026
    The railway line connecting Romania with the Republic of Moldova is entering the electrification phase

    During trading on Monday, June 29, the market price of Brent crude, the benchmark North Sea oil, began to rise amid renewed mutual missile strikes between the U.S. and Iran in the Middle East.

    29 June 2026
    Oil prices began to rise as the U.S. and Iran resumed their attacks

    The 400-kV Bălți–Suceava power line, dubbed the “Line of Sustainability,” will be built by the Turkish company SA-RA, which won an international tender; the contract between SA-RA and the state-owned company Moldelectrica was signed last Friday.  

    29 June 2026
    Construction of the Bălți–Suceava power line will take 24 months

    Using land for both electricity generation and food production is a promising solution.

    29 June 2026
    Agrivoltaics as a Prospect for Moldova

    In 2025–2026, Moldova was hit by a wave of telephone scams. Using various pretexts and schemes, scammers swindled millions of lei from citizens. The vast majority of these calls originated from abroad.

    29 June 2026
    How to Deal with Phone Scammers

    From June 22 to 28, 2026, revenue from the Customs Service to the state budget totaled more than 791.2 million lei, and since the beginning of this year, approximately 20.1 billion lei have been collected, representing 102.5% of the target.

    29 June 2026
    The Customs Service collected 791.2 million lei from June 22 to 28, 2026

    Current “stablecoins” do not possess the key properties of money, and their continued growth could exacerbate the fragmentation of the financial system and increase risks for countries with weaker currencies. This is stated in the annual report of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).

    29 June 2026
    The Bank for International Settlements has declared that stablecoins are unsuitable for use as money

    U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to expand the existing golf course in Washington, D.C., near the White House, with the aim of making it “the best in the world.”

    29 June 2026
    Trump plans to build the “best golf course” near the White House

    Moldova ranks among the top 15 countries in the world with the smallest gap between the rich and the poor (the so-called Gini index). And given that more than a third of our country’s residents live below the poverty line, it turns out that even those considered “rich” in Moldova belong, by global standards, at best to the middle or upper-middle class.

    28 June 2026
    The Rich in Moldova Are Poor, Too

    Ukraine’s first cat therapy center will soon open in the city of Irpin in the Kyiv region. The center will provide psychological support with the help of rescued cats, using feline therapy—a branch of animal-assisted therapy.

    28 June 2026
    Ukraine’s First Cat Therapy Center to Open Near Kyiv: Who Will It Help?

    The extreme heat could leave Spain without olives and the French without vineyards.

    28 June 2026
    Possible Economic Consequences of the Heat Wave in Europe Have Been Identified

    The World Bank Group announced that it is closing its official Facebook page dedicated to the Republic of Moldova in order to focus its communications on projects in that country on the regional platform for Europe and Central Asia.

    28 June 2026
    The World Bank has closed its Facebook page dedicated to the Republic of Moldova

    The Republic of Moldova could become the country with the fastest-growing air traffic in Europe in the coming years.

    28 June 2026
    Moldova Could See the Fastest Growth in Air Traffic in Europe

    For the first time in Ukraine, seized virtual assets have been transferred to the government for management. More than 8.3 million USDT has been deposited into the crypto wallet of the National Agency for Asset Tracing and Management (ARMA).

    28 June 2026
    In Ukraine, seized crypto assets were transferred to the government for the first time

    At the meeting of the secretaries-general on June 22, a draft resolution of the Moldovan government was reviewed and approved, exempting the state-owned enterprise Moldelectrica from paying to the budget income tax on revenue received in 2025 in the amount of 26,997,786,25 lei.

    27 June 2026
    Moldelectrica, a state-owned enterprise, is seeking an exemption from paying income tax on revenue earned in 2025

    Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law increasing government fees for migrants.

    27 June 2026
    Government fees for migrants in Russia will increase severalfold

    Art from the Republic of Moldova has made its way to the heart of Vienna: Pavel Braila’s work adorns the facade of the Ringturm tower.

    27 June 2026
    Moldovan stuffed cabbage rolls were painted on a skyscraper in Vienna

    The largest cryptocurrency exchange was unable to obtain a license in any of the EU countries where it applied, but it will keep trying.

    27 June 2026
    Binance has warned its customers in the European Union that it will discontinue service