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LVIV - The Lviv City Council has passed a draft appeal to Ukraine's Constitutional Court asking the latter whether individual points of the law "On the Fundamentals of the State Policy on Languages" are in tune with the Ukrainian constitution.

The draft appeal received 75 votes in the 90-seat council.

The controversial law on languages allows limited official use of Russian as an official language.