RIGALatvia's highest court has ruled that a law requiring at least 75 percent of all commercial radio and television broadcasts be in the Latvian language violates freedom of speech.The Constitutional Court struck down clauses in the law aimed at restricting broadcasts in Russian by a 5-2 vote on June 6.Under the 1995 law, 25 percent of a 24-hour broadcast can be in a foreign language."It's clearly a violation of freedom of speech and freedom of information and would not hold up under international law," chief judge Aivars Endzins told The Baltic Times.A group of 24 lawmakers who mostly rep...
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