Categories Selected Articles ‘I’m going home’: President Biden gives clemency to Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier Post author By Mike Nova Post date January 20, 2025 Former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who had been imprisoned for nearly 50 years, on Jan. 20. ← AZAL plane shot down by Russian air defense, the question now is who ordered the strike, expert says | https://t.co/fpaFxKYMbs https://t.co/CRN26vLuMz The AZAL passenger aircraft on the Baku-Grozny route that crashed near Aktau on December 25 last year was definitely hit by Russian air defense systems, Talgat Kaliyev, director of the Institute of Applied Ethnopolitical Research LLP, said in an interview with Report. Today, one of the main questions in the joint investigation is who made the decision to open fire on a civilian aircraft and how could it have been mistaken for a UAV? The investigation itself will take considerable time, Kaliyev noted. But preliminary results will be announced s → AZAL plane shot down by Russian air defense, the question now is who ordered the strike, expert says. I agree and add: And why, and who was behind them?