The West Kazakhstan region's police department told RFE/RL on April 30 that journalist Raul Uporov, who extensively covered ongoing unprecedented floods in the city of Oral, had been charged with ...

In the months before Euro 2004 in Portugal, pundits predicted an epidemic of violence. In the previous two European international tournaments—Euro 2000 in Belgium and the Netherlands, and the 1998 ...

MOSCOW (AP) A Russian lawmaker has proposed an unorthodox solution to the country's problems with soccer hooliganism ahead of next year's World Cup - legalize it and make it a spectator sport.

In Sunday’s Championship derby between midlands rivals Birmingham and Aston Villa, a fan was able to run onto the field and assault visiting Villa star Jack Grealish. The supporter has subsequently ...

Three members of the band Pussy Riot have been charged with the antiquated, tsarist-era crime. Just two short weeks before Russia's March presidential election, five women stormed the altar of ...

The trial of feminist punk group Pussy Riot has attracted global attention and has exposed Russia’s hardline against freedom of expression and dissent. The legal troubles for three band members, ...

BAKU -- An opposition politician in Azerbaijan has been sentenced to more than four years in prison on a hooliganism charge which he and his supporters call "bogus." A court in Baku on September 3 ...

West Midlands Police has defended keeping silent over the "significant hooliganism" among Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, which it now confirms is the reason they were banned from attending the Europa League ...

A new report says football hooliganism in the Western Balkans is closely linked to organised crime and drug dealing, especially in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Hardcore fans of Serbia’s Partizan ...

The American commentariat has been having a field day – and rightfully so – berating the Putin government of the post-Soviet Russian nation for clumsily invoking that old Soviet favorite: the ...

A few days in and already international soccer’s second biggest tournament is a battleground, not only for Europe’s finest teams and players but also, lamentably, for the ignorant seam of idiocy that ...