News about Chisinau

Against the backdrop of the aid announced by the central government for the capital, municipal services demonstrated the readiness of the vehicle fleet used for water supply.

“Over the past few years, 1.3 billion lei have been invested in Chisinau’s schools. That’s as much as PAS has invested in the ‘European Village’ project nationwide,” said Chisinau Mayor Ion Ceban, continuing the debate over the RESTART education reform.

The Capital’s Main Directorate for Housing, Public Utilities, and Urban Improvement, in cooperation with the sector prefectures, will designate areas for the installation of mobile water distribution stations for the public.

Construction work on the new transfer station with a waste sorting line in the Ciocana sector (Lot II), carried out as part of the municipal project “Chisinau Solid Waste,” is 60% complete.

The Chisinau City Hall invites residents of the capital to participate in the “City Barometer,” launched as part of the process to update Chisinau’s General Urban Development Plan (GUDP) through 2040.

Termoelectrica acknowledged that the water in Chisinau’s rivers had temporarily turned green due to repair and testing work on the heating networks carried out in the Ryshkanovka sector.

City officials have announced that the summer program “Home to Chisinau” will take place in August; it is being organized by the B. P. Hășdeu Municipal Library.

This year, the Chisinau municipality allocated 36.2 million lei for summer programs, of which more than 4.5 million lei were earmarked for summer camps.

The monitoring group’s work on updating the Chisinau General Urban Development Plan (GUDP) – 2040 began with a presentation of the studies “Mobility and Transportation” and “Territorial Cooperation.”

The capital’s authorities have signed a contract for work on the “Expansion of Mircea cel Bătrân Boulevard” project. This is the first phase of one of the capital’s largest infrastructure projects in recent years, according to the Chisinau City Hall.

There has been a lot of discussion lately about the real estate market crisis and its causes. But these discussions are fragmented and not always logically connected. The problem, however, is complex and interconnected. That is precisely why “picking out” individual facts or statistical data and commenting on them without considering the broader chain of factors can lead us down the wrong path in our search for the causes of the crisis. 

Today, the draft city budget for 2026 was once again submitted for consideration at a meeting of the Chisinau City Council. The plan is to vote on it in two readings.

The Ministry of Education and Research has decided that “first-graders should study alongside third- or fourth-graders. Fourth-graders should serve as mentors.”

In Moldova, the government—one of whose major projects was a tax reform scheduled for 2027—has resigned. Some criticized this reform, while others supported it; it was the subject of political bargaining, and various declarations and statements were made. But let’s be honest: no one ever really explained to the average person exactly how they would benefit from all these rates, charges, and withholdings.

Work on its modernization has entered a new phase. According to the city government, the project calls for reorganizing traffic flow through the creation of a smart transportation corridor, which will increase road capacity.

The Russian Center for Science and Culture (Russian House) in the Moldovan capital has officially ceased operations. The Russian Embassy in Moldova announced this on July 4.

According to the mayor’s office press service, the Chisinau authorities have announced the launch of the “Austrian School in Moldova” project. This will be the second Austrian school in the capital.

The city administration announced repairs to two streets in the city center—the spacious Yuri Gagarin Boulevard near the train station and the cozy, tree-lined Veronika Mikle Street, on the section between A. Pushkin Street and V. Pyrkelab.

The Chisinau City Hall invites residents and visitors to the capital to the 6th annual “Hello, Chisinau!” festival, organized to mark the 590th anniversary of the city’s first mention in historical documents.

The Chisinau city government announced the creation of a new department within City Hall dedicated to tourism development and the promotion of the capital.