Russian court cuts Khodorkovsky's jail term
- 11 years ago
Russia supreme court has cut two months off the prison sentence of the jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner. Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev were arrested in 2003 and convicted in 2005 of tax evasion. The case was widely seen as political punishment stemming from Khodorkovsky's rivalry with the then new Russian president Vladimir Putin. Al Jazeera's Peter Sharp reports from Moskow.