On Wednesday night, about a hundred livid hockey fans, dressed in the red and white jerseys of Lokomotiv, their home team, gathered outside the St. George hotel in the Russian city of Yaroslavl to vent their indignation at a group of officials visiting from Moscow. "Thank God they were blocked from coming inside," says Evgeny Minchenko, a Kremlin-connected spin doctor who was staying at the St. George. "Until two in the morning they were under our windows yelling, 'Shame! Bastards!' as well as some things I'd rather not repeat." For politicians, it was an awful omen for the election season now getting underway.
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