CNN = bullshit!!!
Just some facts:
ACM Programming Contest World Finals Results:
1 St Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics, <-World Champions
3 Belarusian State University,
4 Perm State University,
8 Izhevsk State Technical University,
15 Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University,
15 Nizhny Novgorod State University,
27 Novosibirsk State University,
27 Petrozavodsk State University,
27 St. Petersburg State University.
I can not see any USA teams here:
http://icpc.baylor.edu/past/Champs.html
P.S. by the way I have some employers form St.Petersburg and you can use them for your needs ;)