In 1988, he initiated the creation of the literary socio-political circle "Alexei Mateevici" (named for the Moldavian poet), who gathered in crowded places, and began a campaign to collect signatures for proclaiming the Romanian language as the state language and returning to the Latin script.

According to Șalaru himself, he owned as of 2011 a 1996 Mercedes Gelendavagen car, which he purchased for $30,000 in 1998 from President Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan.

[6] In the summer of 2012, in one of the parliamentary sessions at which Șalaru, as Minister of Transport, made a report, ended in a brawl between him and PCRM deputy Grigory Petrenko.

[11] Immediately after taking office, he announced, after meeting with the Minister of National Defense of Romania, about his intention to change the military doctrine of Moldova towards rapprochement with NATO and the opening of the NATO office in Chișinău in autumn 2015.

[12] In September 2015, on his instructions and with his personal participation, the T-34 tank mounted on the territory of the Ștefan cel Mare 2nd Motorized Infantry Brigade in Chișinău was removed from the pedestal.