Jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is seen on a screen during an appeal for a reduced sentence at Russia's Supreme Court in Moscow August 6, 2013. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky asked Russia's Supreme Court on Tuesday to release him and overturn a sentence he said was one of many "faulty rulings" that have spurred opposition to President Vladimir Putin.
Khodorkovsky, who was Russia's richest man as head of the Yukos oil company before his arrest in 2003 and sentencing in 2005 for tax evasion and fraud, read out his appeal in a video link from a prison colony near the Arctic Circle.
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