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Russian prosecutor asks to reduce Khodorkovsky jail term - media

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian prosecutor requested on Thursday that oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's jail sentence for multibillion-dollar theft and money laundering be reduced by almost two years, local news agencies reported. Khodorkovsky is serving 13 years in a prison near the Arctic circle after a Russian court convicted him in 2010 in a case that Kremlin critics have described as politically motivated. "I ask for a final punishment of 11 years and three months imprisonment for M. Khodorkovsky and P. ...

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