Latvians have voted today in a referendum on whether to make Russian the country's second official language.
The referendum is widely expected to fail, but has exposed deep fault-lines in Latvia, two decades after its split from the Soviet Union.
Hundreds of people queued at the Latvian Embassy on St Stephen's Green in Dublin to vote.
The referendum was initiated by Latvia's pro-Russian lobby, which says the Baltic state's large Russian-speaking minority has been shut out of political life since Latvia broke free from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Latvian nationalists see the vote as a Kremlin-backed attempt to weaken the country's sovereignty in order to push it back into Russia's sphere of influence.
Latvia regained its independence in 1991 after 50 years of what it sees as Soviet occupation.
