Vitalie Calugareanu is a Moldovan journalist with more than two decades of experience.
He has been working for different media outlets in Moldova, Romania, Germany and Russia since 1999, participating in various cross-border investigative projects. He has worked as DW correspondent in Moldova since 2004, and he is also a host in a political talk show.
Calugareanu was part of the team of journalists that won the 2010 Global Shining Light Award with their investigation on Moldovan president Vladimir Voronin.
Lately he has increased interest in Russian-generated separatist conflicts; separatism military, financial and propaganda mechanisms and pursuit of interests of Russian political-oligarchic groups profiting from Russian-controlled separatist enclaves.