I actually was surprised about the results - didn't think that turnout and votes against would be so high.
but may be it will show the authorities that there is the need for a change though.
Yes - there might be a change - now people are considering to stop state-funded education in Russian altogether.

And according to constitution results should be interpreted a bit differently, because required 50%+1 votes should be from ALL voters, not just from those who went to referendum.
And that means that only 17% of all eligible voters supported official status for Russian.

So I'm not surprised that Russian Latvians are not very happy with such treatment of their native language.
Poor Russians - my landlord still speaks to me only in Russian, because she knows Latvian poorly - do you think I should be happy?

And anyway - what do you think would be fair?
Latvians should forget Latvian language and speak only Russian to not offend someone - ребята давайте жить дружно Stalin/Putin style?

And here Russians are more respected than they are in Russia - we do not steal their votes in elections/referendums like партия жуликов и воров does in Russia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZHL...layer_embedded