Quote Originally Posted by nulle View Post
Я не против русского языка.

I do not want to get fined, because I might not know Russian well enough - and if this referendum succeeded - "language police" would be required to test proficiency of both Russian AND Latvian (And they usually do it only when someone complains).
Do Finns in Finland get fined for insufficient use of the other national language - Swedish? Do Swedes in Finland get fined for insufficient use of Finnish? Is there language police at all? Also, do Finns in Finland call Swedes invaders because Sweden owned Finland for about half the millennia?
AFAIK, the answer is no.
I think that Finland is happy with two national languages. So my call to Latvia is this: follow Finland's example! But apparently Latvian society is not ready to show magnanimity now. Maybe in the future...