From Russia With LØpht
Legal Affairs, May, 2002 by Brendan I. Koerner
Had Alexey Vladimirovich Ivanov been born in Chicago rather than Chelyabinsk, he'd likely be well on his way to joining the geek elite. His three-page résumé lists computer skills that would dazzle any Silicon Valley headhunter. According to his employment history, Ivanov began working at a regional telephone company in Russia while still in his mid-teens, installing Web servers and Cisco routers.
His programming talents include tricky languages like C and Perl, and he has mastered 18 different operating systems, from Linux to Solaris. But Chelyabinsk, a Stalinist burg located in the Ural Mountains, is a pretty bleak place to grow up. The town has twice endured nuclear catastrophe—an arms plant dumped waste in a local lake for years, and in 1957 a nearby nuclear weapons...
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