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Mikhail Khodorkovsky reacts after being sentenced as he is seen from behind bars at a court room in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Jailed Russian 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's power. Judge Viktor Danilkin sentenced Khodorkovsky to fourteen years after convicting him of stealing oil from his own company and laundering the proceeds, but the judge said the new sentence is counted from his 2003 arrest and includes his previous term in jail. Khodorkovsky is in the final year of an eight-year prison sentence.
Justice   Photos   Politics   Russia   Wikipedia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky		  The Australian 
Tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky returns to bleak gulag
Fri 31 Dec 2010
IT operates a brutal regime in one of the bleakest places in Russia and soon a remote Siberian prison may be home again to Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The former Yukos... (photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, center left, and his co-defendant Platon Lebedev, center right, smile from behind a glass enclosure at a court room in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Khodorkovsky, 47, is in the final year of an eight-year sentence after being convicted of tax evasion, and the new conviction on charges of embezzlement and money laundering could keep him behind bars for several more years.
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Europe, US slam extended jail sentence for Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Thu 30 Dec 2010
EUROPEAN and US leaders have blasted the extended jail sentence for Russian former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky in a second fraud trial as politically... (photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev)
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, right, reacts after being sentenced as he seen from behind bars at a court room in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Jailed Russian 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's power. Judge Viktor Danilkin sentenced Khodorkovsky to fourteen years after convicting him of stealing oil from his own company and laundering the proceeds, but the judge said the new sentence is counted from his 2003 arrest and includes his previous term in jail. Khodorkovsky is in the final year of an eight-year prison sentence.  Zeenews  Thu 30 Dec 2010
European leaders slam Khodorkovsky sentence
Berlin: European leaders blasted the sentencing of Russian former mogul Mikhail Khodorkovsky in a second ‘fraud’ trial as politically motivated and a step backward for the rule of law. Chancellor... (photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky reacts after being sentenced as he is seen from behind bars at a court room in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Jailed Russian 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's power. Judge Viktor Danilkin sentenced Khodorkovsky to fourteen years after convicting him of stealing oil from his own company and laundering the proceeds, but the judge said the new sentence is counted from his 2003 arrest and includes his previous term in jail. Khodorkovsky is in the final year of an eight-year prison sentence.  The New York Times  Thu 30 Dec 2010
Russian Judge Extends Term for Tycoon by 6 Years
MOSCOW — Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the Russian tycoon who was imprisoned after defying Vladimir V. Putin, was sentenced to another six years behind bars on Thursday. It was a stiff term that was... (photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, left, and his co-defendant Platon Lebedev, right, talk behind a glass enclosure at a court room in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Khodorkovsky, 47, is in the final year of an eight-year sentence after being convicted of tax evasion, and the new conviction on charges of embezzlement and money laundering could keep him behind bars for several more years. The Australian Thu 30 Dec 2010
Mikhail Khodorkovsky given new 14-year sentence
A MOSCOW judge last night handed Russia's former richest man Mikhail Khodorkovsky a 14-year jail term. It was Khodorkovsky's second trial on... (photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr)
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Russian Premier Vladimir Putin, left, speak during a meeting of the State Council on developing of political system issues in Moscow's Kremlin on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. Zeenews Thu 30 Dec 2010
'Putin, Medvedev to agree on presidential candidacy'
Moscow: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday it was too early to discuss the 2012 Presidential Elections but added he and President Dmitry Medvedev... (photo: AP / RIA Novosti, Vladimir Rodionov, Presidential Press Service))
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In this June 24, 2000 file photo, a Russian heavy-lift military cargo plane Ilyushin Il-76, the same model as the one that crashed Sunday in Siberia, takes off at a military airfield near Ryazan, 150 km (93 miles) southeast of Moscow. CNN Thu 30 Dec 2010
12 killed in Russian military plane crash
Moscow (CNN) -- Twelve people were killed Wednesday when a military plane crashed in central Russia, authorities said. The An-22 Antonov... (photo: AP / File)
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File - Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, March 17, 2008. The Star Wed 29 Dec 2010
Putin cancels officials' holiday after travel chaos
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin banned Moscow aviation officials on Wednesday from going on their New Year holiday -- a Russian national institution --... (photo: USAF / Tech. Sgt. Jerry Morrison)
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A general view of Moscow's Domodedovo airport is seen on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010. CNN Wed 29 Dec 2010
Moscow airports returning to normal after outage, snowstorm
Passengers marooned in Moscow for days Moscow (CNN) -- Moscow's largest airport is back to normal after a massive snowstorm that snarled air traffic across Europe,... (photo: AP / Pavel Golovkin)
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky is led behind bars in a court room in Moscow, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. Al Jazeera Wed 29 Dec 2010
Russia rejects trial criticism
  Russia has fired back at foreign criticisms over the second conviction of a jailed oil tycoon, saying that other governments should "mind their own business". On... (photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev)
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