The 2016 edition of the World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders is out, and the news is not good.

For anyone who ever harbored doubts about the brutal nature of the Russian regime, an afternoon reading the newly published British report of the death of defected Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko should be a frightful reminder of the ruthlessness behind the Putin regime.

Tehran seems determined to demonstrate that the nuclear agreement struck by the Obama administration will not alter the nature of the Iranian regime one whit.

Last week the Russian government added one more issue to its growing heap of disputes with the United States.