News about Infrastructure
Due to climate change, the Republic of Moldova will increasingly face natural disasters such as the recent floods. This fact requires citizens to carefully consider risks at the stage of housing construction in order to minimize threats, and authorities at the central and local levels to have clear policies to prevent major losses and tragedies.
The most effective methods of “green works” were introduced to Moldovan winegrowers at a seminar organized this week at the vineyard mastered by the National Institute of Applied Research in Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine.
Real Madrid has once again topped the ranking of the world’s most expensive soccer clubs published by Forbes. The club is valued at $9.5 billion and has held the top spot for the fifth consecutive year.
The program of measures for the country’s reintegration for 2026, worth 25 million lei, is scheduled to be approved at a government meeting next week.
Prime Minister Rumen Radev said Friday that Bulgaria will only allow U.S. military aircraft on its territory until the end of June.
Today, during a meeting of the Chisinau Municipal Council, Svetlana Dogotara was elected vice mayor of the capital. Councillors of the PAS faction consider this decision illegal.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported on May 29 that the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Ukraine has temporarily lost all external sources of power supply for the 16th time since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
When they talk about local elections in Moldova, they almost always discuss people. Who will win, who will lose, which party will be strengthened, who is behind whom, who has made a deal with whom, and how this will affect the big political game. Then the elections pass, the passions gradually subside, the elected mayors return to their daily work – and it turns out that the main issue has been left aside again.
At SCI’s water management facility “Criulenii de Sus”, work has begun on the iDRIP program. The first stage includes technical analysis of the existing infrastructure and preparation of the project of rehabilitation works on this irrigation system.
The Chisinau Vocational School No. 11 for students with special needs will cease its educational activity.
The season of white nights in St. Petersburg in 2026 has become noticeably more expensive for foreign tourists and travelers from CIS countries. According to market participants, the cost of trips to the Northern Capital has increased by 10-15% on average over the year, and vacation prices are increasingly approaching the level of popular European city-break destinations.
The 2026 harvest in Brazil is estimated at 66.7 million bags (a standard bag of coffee in the International Coffee Organization’s ICO measurement system is 60 kg). This is an 18% percent increase over last year’s result. If the forecast is confirmed, the result would be a new record in history (statistics maintained by the National Supply Company Conab), exceeding the 2020 figure (63.08 million bags) by 5.74%.
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) will improve its response to cyber threats by creating a specialized unit and expanding its staff.
Another large-scale PV park with a capacity of 30 MW with 60 MWh battery storage capacity is planned for Vadul-lui-Voda.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu compared the reform of the local public administration to a long-standing popular tradition of mutual assistance – “claca”. The head of state said that historically, in our villages, big things were done together, through mutual assistance, and this reform is, in fact, a “claka” between villages.
Germany and the Netherlands will establish a joint tactical headquarters in the Baltic States this year to command forces on NATO’s eastern flank.
A drone hit a residential high-rise building in the eastern Romanian city of Galati, the Inspectorate for Emergency Situations said. The impact caused an explosion. A fire started in one of the apartments. According to preliminary information, two people were injured. About 70 residents were evacuated from the building, some of them left the building on their own.
The Pulmonology Department of the Pediatric Clinic of the Institute of Mother and Child was completely renovated within a modernization project worth more than 5 million lei. The new infrastructure will ensure European treatment conditions for young patients and an optimal working environment for the medical staff.
Profit of Transelectrica (Romania) increased by 27% in the first quarter. Extraordinary sources of income included funds received from assistance to victims of natural disasters in the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.
Moldova will have emergency stocks of petroleum products sufficient to cover domestic consumption for 61 days or equivalent to at least 90 days of net imports, depending on the higher figure.
