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 wasnt 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 its probably best to just call the section the  Transnistrian Referendum As for saying that Russia and many countries recognized the referendum that wouldnt 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