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Lawmakers did not support the draft resolutions suggesting repealing of the laws on banning Saint George (Guards) ribbons in Ukraine, on abolition of the “Savchenko law” and the law on the introduction of language quotas on Ukrainian television.

Some 19 MPs voted for draft resolution No. 2987-P on the abolition of the law banning manufacturing and propaganda of Saint George (Guards) ribbons on May 25, with the necessary minimum being 226, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported.

After that, the Verkhovna Rada voted down the draft resolution, which proposed the return of the “Savchenko’s law”, according to which every day of pre-trial detention should be counted as two days of the imprisonment term.

In addition, two draft resolutions (No. 5313-P and No. 5313-P1) on abolishing the law on quotas, which establishes a 75 percent mandatory share of Ukrainian-language content on television, were registered in the parliament. The resolutions were drafted by members of the Opposition Bloc faction Yuriy Pavlenko and Mykhailo Papiyev, as well as independent MP Yakiv Bezbakh.

The speaker put them to the vote and they did not find the needed support. Thus, the law on quotas has not been abolished by the parliament, and the Verkhovna Rada chairman can now sign it.