Near the village of Pererita in the Briceni district, work is continuing on the development of the ‘Zamca’ eco-trail. The total investment in the development of the complex amounts to 25.2 million lei, of which 22.7 million has been allocated from the National Fund for Regional and Local Development, whilst 2.5 million lei is a contribution from the Briceni District Council.
On the morning of 19 October, around fifty art students blocked access to the Louvre in Paris. A notice announcing the temporary closure appeared on the Louvre’s official website. The protesters took to the streets to express solidarity with the large-scale movement of secondary school pupils and to speak out against the police’s heavy-handed tactics.
Moldovan entrepreneur Dorina Baciu, founder of the artisan cheese brand Sălașul Baciului, has been named among the world’s 100 outstanding women working in the agri-food sector and in the field of rural development.
Moldovan athlete Radu Budan came second in the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3,100 Mile Race ultramarathon in New York, covering around 5,000 km in 46 days, 13 hours, 35 minutes and 48 seconds.
The Alexei Mateevich Theatre in Chișinău has successfully completed a tour of Italy, staging the play *The Jubilee* based on a play by A. P. Chekhov. The performances, which took place on 10 and 11 October in Turin and Milan, attracted large audiences from the Moldovan and Romanian diasporas.
Following a four-year renovation, the Museum of Cultural Heritage in Taraclia has reopened. This large-scale project, costing over 7.1 million lei and implemented with the support of the ‘European Village’ National Programme, has enabled the building to be fully modernised and created state-of-the-art facilities for preserving the history and traditions of the local Bulgarian community.
Local public authorities in Moldova will have the opportunity to secure state funding for the development of youth infrastructure. Under the new grant scheme, district, municipal and rural councils can receive between 150,000 and 300,000 lei to establish new youth centres and branches.
At its test site in Texas, Tesla unveiled a ‘flying’ version of the Roadster hypercar, equipped with a specialised jet propulsion system from SpaceX.
An exhibition entitled ‘From Grapes to Wine, From the Land to the Table’ has opened at the National Museum of History of Moldova. The museum’s galleries feature paintings depicting scenes of rural life and images of authentic textiles, as well as ceramic and glass artefacts.
The Chisinau Botanical Garden, founded on 1 September 1950, remains the country’s leading scientific centre in the field of botany. Today, the Botanical Garden of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova covers an area of 104 hectares, where over 7,500 species, forms and varieties of plants grow.
In France, hackers breached the control software of refrigeration units in the country’s largest retail chains, remotely raising the temperature in display cabinets and freezers to 50°C and destroying tonnes of fresh and frozen food.
From 15 to 18 October, the ‘Moldexpo’ International Exhibition Centre will become the epicentre of innovation and business in Moldova’s agri-industrial sector. The MOLDAGROTECH & FARMER 2026 exhibitions will bring together over 400 participants.
The annual ‘Golden Autumn’ district festival took place in Căușeni, bringing together local farmers, folk artisans, residents of the district and foreign delegations.
Protests took place in Portugal’s largest cities under the slogan ‘We can’t go on living like this’. Thousands of citizens, weary of the ongoing socio-economic crisis, took to the streets. Lisbon and Porto became the epicentres of the protests.
Every year, international students bring in around €60 million to the Republic of Moldova through tuition fees alone. Currently, more than 5,000 young people from other countries are studying at the country’s universities, the majority of whom are enrolled in medical institutions.
The National Agency for the Prevention and Combating of Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (ANPCV) has launched an initiative to develop a Strategy for the Economic Empowerment of Women for 2027–2031. The main aim of the project is to integrate social protection, the labour market, education and business support into a single system.
Hundreds of greater flamingos have been spotted in Romania; in recent years, they have increasingly been choosing the lakes of Dobruja as their home. There are currently 98 birds on Lake Sinoe and a further 19 on Lake Tekirgiyol; of these, over 70 on Lake Sinoe are young birds born this year.
In the village of Vadul-Rashkov in the Sholdanești district, the restored bell tower – a 17th-century architectural monument – was officially opened. The restoration of the building cost approximately €140,000.
The Italian town of Aelli has added a new art installation with a Moldovan flavour to its unique collection of street art. It hosted the grand opening of the ‘HORA’ mural, created by the Moldovan artist Radu Dumbrava.
In the first nine months of 2026, 45 people in Moldova suffered from mushroom poisoning, including three children. By way of comparison, a similar number of cases was recorded for the whole of 2025.
