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Mikhail Khodorkovsky looks on from behind a glass enclosure at a court room in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Khodorkovsky, 47, is in the ...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky looks on 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. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr)
Russia Khodorkovsky
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, right, reacts after being sentenced as he seen from behind bars at a court room in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Ja...
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. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russia Khodorkovsky
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 ...
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. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russia Khodorkovsky
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 ...
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. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
A lawyer for jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky says she has appealed his sentence of six more years in prison, a punishment seen as revenge for challenging Vladimir Putin's power.
Karinna Moskalenko said she launched the appeal Friday on the final work day before a 10-day New Year vacation.
Moskalenko says Khodorkovsky's conviction on charges of stealing almost $30 billion worth of oil between 1998 and 2003 from his Yukos company and laundering the proceeds had nothing to do with justice.
Khodorkovsky's business partner Platon Lebedev received the same sentence Thursday. His lawyer also appealed.
The ruling drew strong condemnation from western governments, who called it evidence of the use of Russia's judicial system for political ends.
