MOSCOW: Jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced to six more years in prison Thursday following a trial seen as payback for his defiance of Vladimir Putin and as a test of the rule of law in Russia.
The ruling drew immediate condemnation from the U.S. and European governments, who called it evidence of the use of Russia's judicial system for political ends.
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