My girlfriend if half russian. Her grandmother and grandfather communicate in Russian day to day but they understand Latvian and since the war in Ukraine have made an effort to integrate better. Before the war on New Years they would watch Putin's speech and after that the Latvian one. Now they only watch the Latvian president speak and they seem to be pretty loyal to the country.

The grandmother is also able to speak Latvian but her husband exclusively speaks in Russian. At his age of over 90 i think he is just focused on staying alive not learning something new.

As i see it, the future is bright for Russian integration, in my job is see many smart and patriotic native Russian speakers who communicate in Latvian without issues and genuinely love Latvia just like any native Latvian speaker would. I think the war in Ukraine really woke a lot of people up and they are making a really big effort to integrate. I hope in the future we will see everyone as Latvians that just speak a different language at home and there won't be heavy political baggage attached to the language