KIEV, Nov. 20 – A U.S. district court has reduced by 11 months the nine-year prison sentence for former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, who was convicted in the United States of corruption in Ukraine, the U.S. media have reported.

U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer took a decision cutting Lazarenko's sentence from 108 to 97 months in prison. The court took into account his good behavior in custody and the absence of any complaints against him from the Bay Area prison administration.