It would have been more fair to make this a regional decision in that case.
It seems to me that the Russians tend to live in the 3-4 largest cities and in some of those they are majority.
While the rest of the country is mainly Latvian.

This is so tragic - both for Latvians who are still hurting and very much hung up on the past.
And the Russian-speakers who have to pay for "the sins of the fathers" by putting up with language discrimination that would not be acceptable anywhere else in Europe.