Imprisoned former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is due for early release in 2014 after a Russian court cut two years off his term for embezzlement.
He is serving his sentence in a prison near the Arctic Circle after being convicted in 2010 at a trial dismissed by supporters as politically motivated.
A Moscow court cited legal changes in reducing the term.
The former head of oil giant Yukos was convicted of fraud and tax evasion at his first trial in 2005.
Khodorkovsky's business partner, Platon Lebedev, has also had his sentence cut by two years.
At their second trial in 2010, they were both sentenced to 13 years, to run from the date of their arrest in 2003.
In one of his final acts before leaving office as Russian president this year, Dmitry Medvedev ordered a review of the sentences imposed on Khodorkovsky, Lebedev and 30 others.
Khodorkovsky's convictions have been widely seen abroad as political revenge for him defying the Kremlin by backing Russia's opposition politicians against Vladimir Putin, who was re-elected as president in March after a gap of four years.
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