`  == Referendum ==  Please do not introduce significant changes to this section wihtout discussing them here beforehand. The word indpendence should not be used in the title because the referendum wasn't about independence, it was about whether Transnistria preferred to set on a course to come closer to Russia or Moldova (the questions are pretty explicit about this). In any case any such descriptor would be subjective, so it's probably best to just call the section the ``2006 Transnistrian Referendum``. As for saying that Russia and many countries recognized the referendum, that wouldn't really be true. Even Putin said that officially Russia cannot recognize the referendum, and I can think of no other countries (except maybe for Abkhazia and Ossetia if you consider them to be such entities).  `