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Language regulation in the surveyed States is informed inter alia by the provisions of Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (hereinafter, the ICCPR) and Article 10 of the (European) Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and OVERVIEW 2 Fundamental Freedoms (hereinafter, the European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR), which guarantee the right to the freedom. [...] Language regulation should consider the function of the PSB, the general availability of material in a variety of the relevant languages, and the sense of satisfaction among the communities affected. [...] In Malta, the Broadcasting Authority must ensure that in broadcasting services in the country, the “proper proportions of the recorded and other matter included in the programmes are in the Maltese language and reflect the Maltese cultural identity”. [...] A distinction is made in the Russian Federation’s regulatory approaches to ordinary programming and advertising: in translation and dubbing for cinema and video production, Russian, the State languages of the republics and the native languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation may be used, taking into account the interests of the population. [...] At the discretion of the advertiser, OVERVIEW 16 advertising may also be carried out in the official languages of the republics and native languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation.