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Дмитрий Калак

Дмитрий Калак

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

    EU countries will be able to double their exports of goods to India by 2032 by reducing tariffs on about 96% of goods supplied to the Indian market, and New Delhi will receive €500 million from the EU to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and “industrial transformation,” according to Logos Press.

    27 January 2026
    The EU has struck an “all-time deal” with India

    As of January 1, 2026, the free enterprise zone “Tvardica” in the south of Moldova ceased to function. The anchor resident of the zone is Vinimpex Holding, which includes a factory producing still and sparkling wines Bulgari Winery, an enterprise producing strong alcoholic beverages, a cosmetics factory Natural Product, a tobacco factory BT-Tabac Holding… Also 1200 hectares of agricultural land, its own fleet of vehicles transporting products produced in Tvarditsa all over the world, several facilities in the sphere of HoReCa and consumer services. The owner of the holding is the well-known businessman Mykola Lucik, who invested about 55 million euros in the creation of his production facilities.

    16 January 2026
    Nicolai Lutsik: Moldova can compete on global markets not only with wine

    Russia and Ukraine “may be very close” to ending a war that has lasted nearly four years, Logos Press reports.

    29 December 2025
    Peace in Ukraine is “very close”

    Every New Year we meet with enthusiasm and hope for changes for the better. This is the way human beings are: no matter how bad things are, no matter what problems overwhelm us, we traditionally consider the New Year as a starting point, from which we will start a completely different life – from a white sheet, without the problematic plume of the past.

    24 December 2025
    The year 2026: local hopes and global anxieties

    In recent years, the issue of energy supply has been on the agenda, and before the beginning of each winter season it acquires certain alarming signs. But this winter Moldova meets surprisingly calmly – without hints of another crisis and without heated political discussions around the problem of gas and electricity supplies. Is it so, have all the pitfalls in the energy sector been overcome? Energy Minister Dorin Zhungietu answered these and other questions to Logos Press.

    5 December 2025
    Dorin Jungietu: Moldova has achieved the main thing – continuity of energy supply and market diversification

    A modern vocational training center, TechZone, created by FEZ “Balti”, will be launched in Chisinau on December 5. The project aims to overcome one of the key obstacles to the growth of the industrial sector – the lack of qualified labor force and practical skills-oriented educational infrastructure.

    5 December 2025
    TechZone is an important step towards industrialization of the country

    Two significant news appeared in the public space on Thursday, November 27. First, the People’s Assembly of ATU Gagauzia set the date for the elections of the new legislative body of the autonomy. They will be held on March 22, 2026, and the second round will be held on April 5, 2026.

    28 November 2025
    Gagauzia has scheduled elections, but has not decided on a choice

    Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu’s visit to Brussels was rather symbolic – to show the unconditional priority of European integration for the new government (as well as the previous visit to Bucharest – to demonstrate the continuation of close ties).

    21 November 2025
    Brussels urged Chisinau to “real transformation”

    The first issue of Logos Press was published on November 15, 1990. There was no independent Moldova yet, no market economy, no private media.

    14 November 2025
    Mirror of the Moldovan economy. Logos Press is 35 years old!

    One of the most destructive earthquakes in the history of Turkey on February 6, 2023 was called “the disaster of the century” by American publications. This earthquake is second only to a similar disaster in Cilicia in 1268 in terms of the number of deaths and the scale of destruction on the modern territory of the country. The direct financial losses of the Turkish economy alone are estimated at $104 billion.

    8 November 2025
    “Catastrophe of the Century” in Turkey was the impetus for the “transformation of the century,” or how Turkey is recovering from the devastating 2023 earthquake

    Recent statistics have been nonchalantly recording the outflow of investments from Moldova. In early October, UNCTAD published a report on investment flows, according to which the volume of foreign direct investment (FDI) attracted to Moldova in 2024 was 3.6% less than a year earlier, amounting to $357 million. As a result, accumulated investments during the year fell from $5.46 billion in 2023 to $5.39 billion.

    18 October 2025
    Marin Ciobanu: Attracting investments should be an unconditional priority of the new government

    ProWein Düsseldorf remains one of the leading and most authoritative wine and spirits industry shows in the world. The experts are unanimous: anyone who wants to be successful on the international market should go to Düsseldorf, because the important people in the industry gather here.

    4 October 2025
    Michael Mandel: ProWein Düsseldorf is the way to the EU wine market