October 13, 2000
Russian Universities Educate World's Top Student Programmers
Western industry seeks the country's young talent, despite its ailing higher-education system
Near the summer palace of Peter the Great, young men filter in and out of a cramped computer lab for cigarette breaks in the stairwell on the second floor of the department of mathematics and mechanics at St. Petersburg State University.
The scent of raw sewage pervades the stairwell's dank air. The campus is crisscrossed by alleys of badly cracked asphalt and narrow dirt paths among
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