Problem

Source: St Petersburg Olympiad 2012, Grade 11, P7

Tags: combinatorics, graph theory



Some cities of Russia are connected with some cities of Ukraine with international airlines. The Interstate Council for the Promotion of Migration intends to introduce a one-way traffic on each airline so that, by taking off from the city, it could no longer be returned in this city (using other one-way airlines). Prove that the number of ways to do this is not divided by $3$.