Information needing to be inserted into the article The translation needs to be continued and the result wikified and styled Taken from here Moved here because Markstreet reverted the article for the 15th time and I already reverted two times As the Transnistrian referendum deadline approaches to the support for the separatists from Tiraspol comes disinformation not only from press agencies but also campaigns in the purest KGB style This years June month several publications from Russia and Transdniester made a big deal about the conclusions of a certain report made by prestigious western experts a report which plead for the independence of the separatist region from eastern Moldova The study was attributed to some institutions with pompous names International Council for Democratic Institutions and State Sovereignty ICDISS where Mauco leads and Euro Atlantic Joint Forum Contact Group Among the signatures were quoted several well known Oxford Standford or Harvard Stefan Talmon Christopher Goebel Nancy Furman Paul Williams Stephen Krasner Andrew Lorenz Michael Scharf William Wookd These were said to have participated in April 2006 at a conference at the Bacon Hotel in Washington together with several other experts in international law among which a high ranking official of the US State Department They all concluded that Transdniester has all the required criteria for it to be declared an independent state thus flagrantly contradicting the official position of all western governments The Ziua reporters contacted the quoted professors Astounded they declared that they do not have any connection with the report mediatised in the Russian press Stephen Krasner professor of international relations at Stanford University declared that he didn t even wrote about Transdniester ever Michael Scharf professor at Case Western University transmitted to us that the authors of the so called report had done nothing else than to copy and adapt an older study of his and of Paul Williams written over a decade ago not about Transdniester but about Nagorno Karabah Stefan Talmon professor an Oxford University declared I want to make it clear that I was not involved in the writing of this report I suspect that the implication of the mentioned names was used to give a certain credibility to that report and to deceive the public Ziuas investigation was taken over and continued by the The Economist After studing the text of the report the bitish journalist concluded that despite it s academic language certain expressions betrayed the fact that English was not the maternal language of the authors For example the use of the expression telephone centrals instead of exchanges is a very common error found in Russian to English translations The surprises continued The british journalists found that at the Bacon Hotel in Washington had not taken place any such conference None of the mentioned personalities had passed through there About the two organizations which created the study the journalists came to the conclusion that they are very strange From the so called Euro Atlantic Joint Forum Contact Group it appears that there is nothing except the organizations label informs the Economist in its 3rd August edition in an article called Propaganda Wars Returns