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) - Russia's top court refused on Tuesday to free former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky after a decade behind bars but trimmed his sentence by two months, ensuring one of President Vladimir Putin's biggest critics will spend another year in prison.
The Supreme Court ruling should allow Khodorkovsky to walk free in August 2014 after his lawyers complained that a court that last year cut his 2010 sentence for stealing oil and money laundering should have allowed a bigger reduction.
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