Not to defend anyone, just to add some context 1) People are still practicing blood feud where Kaloev lives. I mean, for real. Not at mass scale, but anyway. A

Not to defend anyone, just to add some context 1) People are still practicing blood feud where Kaloev lives. I mean, for real. Not at mass scale, but anyway. And while illegal like any murder, it is romanticized in local culture like an act of supreme justice. So, while it may sound unexpectedly medieval to some people, killing someone who killed your family was pretty much what is considered right for Kaloev and his circle. This is not true for Russia in general. 2) Russian media presented events in very unbalanced way. It is more common in Russia to blame "others". Russian pilots completely ignored TCAS resolution advisory, but were never blamed for that in Russian media. 3) There is a movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unforgiven_(2018_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unforgiven_(2018_film)