MOSCOW — A Russian lawmaker has proposed an unorthodox solution to the country’s problems with football hooliganism ahead of next year’s World Cup — legalize it and make it a spectator sport.

Stanislav Orlov, who united diehard soccer fans under a volunteer brigade fighting on Russia’s side, was shot dead by his own country’s security forces in Crimea ...

VLADIMIR Putin’s top brass who led a notorious private army of neo-Nazi football hooligans has died under mysterious ...

The deputy speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament says his country could even be a pioneer in the new "sport". Football hooliganism should be recognised as a sport with a set of written ...

Hours after FIFA president Gianni Infantino said he was not concerned about violence at the tournament, the BBC's "Russia's Hooligan Army" showed fans predicting clashes between supporters. "For some ...

Fighters from the private military company (PMC) Española. Vladimir Putin's United Russia party has acquired its own private army, the so-called private military company (PMC) Española, and is ...

Reports that Stanislav Orlov was killed by Moscow security services highlights careful managing of non-state power ...

MOSCOW (AP) — At their peak, Russian hooligans felt like gods. “We’re on Mount Olympus right now and it had to be done,” is how one veteran hooligan from Moscow recounts his part in brawls with ...

The Russian ruling party, United Russia, is recruiting members for its own "private army," the mercenary company Hispaniola, Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) said on Jan. 3. This adds the ...

Earlier, BBC released a documentary in which Russian hooligans were warning British football fans about a ‘festival of violence’ in response to the notorious clashes during the 2016 UEFA Euro Cup ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ultra-nationalist and schooled in their country's historical grievances, Russian soccer hooligans see themselves as fighting the Kremlin's geopolitical battles in miniature when ...

LONDON, June 13. /TASS/. British law enforcement authorities have blocked over 1,200 local football hooligans from entering Russia for the duration of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off on ...