The R. Moldova need to demonstrate a real desire to implement the RM-EU Action Plan, and especially in the fields which relate to the freedom of the mass-media, judicial and anti-corruption reform and the development of the business environment. These are the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group, in a report made public regarding the R. Moldova. The experts also recommend that the R. Moldova stop conditioning the negotiations with Transnistria on the democratization and demilitarization of the region, but instead manifest a desire to collaborate especially in the customs and commercial fields. At the same time, the experts recommend that the R. Moldova reform its customs and border guard services in accordance with the recommendations of the Mission for Borders Assistance (EUBAM) and ask the EU for an extension of this Mission. The authors of the report request the Tiraspol authorities not to carry out the referendum on September 17, but to work more actively with the R. Moldova and the negotiators in order to identify the solution to the crisis. The recommendations made to the EU limit themselves to requesting that increased help and assistance be granted to the R. Moldova in fields such as the technical one, commercial preferences etc. Russia, in turn, is asked to come to a mutual agreement with the R. Moldova, the EU, the USA and the OSCE regarding the carrying out of a peace mission in the region, to act upon the Tiraspol leadership for them to accept negotiations with the R. Moldova and to give up carrying out the referendum, as well as to repeal the interdiction for Moldovan wines to be commercialized on the Russian market. This is the third International Crisis Group report regarding the R. Moldova.