ACM programming

Russians and Urkanians, if and when they start programming, is going to leave Indians far far behind - so I thought long time back, interacting with east european collegues. Well, when they get sober from their vodka that is. Such strong mathematical and logical training they get in these countries. Recently was not at all surprised to see this item on slashdot.
And then searched a bit for the past years winners of the ACM programming contest, and sure enough, half the top schools were from East Europe. http://www.informatik.uni-ulm.de/acm/index-en.html