MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Wednesday reduced the 13-year prison sentence of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s business partner, scheduling Platon Lebedev for release early next year.

The court in the northwestern town of Velsk, near where Lebedev is serving time, ordered that his sentence be reduced by three years and four months. Judge Viktor Ivanov said the decision was based on a change in Russian laws, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.