Russia's richest man kept in jail

A Moscow court ruled today that prosecutors can keep Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia’s richest man and former chief of the country’s largest oil company, jailed another three months during an investigation on charges widely seen as politically motivated.

Prosecutors had requested that Khodorkovsky, the former head of Yukos who has been in pre-trial detention since October 25, be held until March 25 and the court agreed to the request.