The consulting agency Interbrand has published its latest ranking of global brands. Among automobile brands, Toyota holds the lead. Immediately behind it are Mercedes-Benz and BMW, with the Americans among the outsiders. The annual Best Global Brands report identifies the 100 most valuable brands in the world, regardless of industry. For the last 13 years, the leader, according to Interbrand, has been held by Coca-Cola.

“The director of LBI exposes the conspiracy of the American intelligence services, which, with the help of Google, are infiltrating all spheres of life of the Russian state, society and government. The search engine, mail, Google Drive, and the mobile platform got it: “The operating system for Android mobile devices created by Google also provides US intelligence agencies with access to user data around the world,” Davydov writes.

In the transcript of the discussion in the State Duma, the bill on transformations at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) for voting in the second and third reading on September 18 detected serious errors that may become a reason for the demand for the recall of the document. The discrepancy was found by the newspaper Vedomosti .

In the area of ​​the Sisha archipelago (Paraselsky Islands), two Chinese fishing vessels with 60 fishermen on board sank due to the tropical storm of Vutip. According to ITAR-TASS with reference to the central Chinese television, 13 people saved, 47 more are missing. Due to the typhoon approaching China, a connection with the fishing vessel with 28 crew members on board was also lost.

The Moscow City Court recognized the as legitimate to the former hieromonk Elijah (Pavel Semin), sentenced to three years in prison for imprisonment of two people as a result of an accident on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow, reports RAPSI . Thus, the court rejected the complaint of prosecutors and victims, who asked to increase Semin to five years old.

The law on the introduction of real estate tax, if it is adopted, then only next year. This means that it will enter into force on January 1, 2015, and the first receipts for its payment will come only in 2016, RBC Daily believes. The publication recalls that one of the latest versions of the bill suggested that the new fiscal rule would work in a number of advanced regions from next year, but later it turned out that there were no "advanced" ones.

The former head coach of the Makhachkalinsky Anji and the Russian national football team Hus Hiddink in an interview with the Dutch edition De Telegraaf spoke about the Dagestan period of his career. “The path to the European peaks is long,” the Soviet Sport Hiddink quotes. “There are always many difficulties on the way. Over the past season, we took a solid step in this direction. But quite unexpectedly, the owner Suleiman Kerimov changed the development of the course.

Former Russian intelligence officer Anna Chapman, declassified along with a number of other agents in the United States in 2010, interrupted an exclusive interview with the NBC American channel after marriage with a fugitive CIA employee Edward Snowden , informs the NBC website. The girl, who herself invited the ex-shpion to marry her in the microblog on Twitter , refused to discuss with American journalists the question of her alleged marriage. “I'm not going to discuss this.

Sberbank, fearing by the government, 35% of the profit in the form of dividends, decided to recall that it is not a state -owned company, the Vedomosti newspaper reports. Now the White House is considering an option that obliges all state companies to pay part of the net profit on consolidated reports, and the Ministry of Finance has developed amendments to the law on joint -stock companies that involve payments, even if the company is unprofitable.

The other day it will be six months since the death of the beloved theater and film actor Valery Zolotukhin. Meanwhile, his heirs may begin a dispute over copyrights and bank accounts. As for several apartments, although the artist did not leave a will, he managed to divide them between his wives and children. The actor's friends believe that disputes about the inheritance are inevitable.

In anticipation of the premiere of the new generation of the Mini Cooper, the company decided to talk about new power units for all future mini. The British company has prepared two gasoline (three- and four-cylinder) and one diesel engines, the characteristics of which are already known. The first engine is a three -cylinder 1.5 -liter gasoline engine with 136 hp. and the maximum torque of 220 nm. Compared to the past "atmospheric", it became more powerful by about 14 hp.

In the Sverdlovsk region, a verdict was sentenced to the driver of a car groomer who turned out to be a serial killer of women. The criminal dissected the corpses of the victims to cover the tracks. By the decision of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court, a 36-year-old resident of Degtyarsk Vladimir Marchev will serve a life sentence in a special regime colony, the official website of the regional department of the IC of the Russian Federation reports.

From the Baikonur cosmodrome (Kazakhstan), the Proton-M launch vehicle with the Breez-M accelerated unit and the ASTRA-2E spacecraft started at 1:38 Moscow time. The orbital block with the Breeze-M accelerated unit and the Astra-2E spacecraft has already separated from the third stage of the Proton-M launch vehicle. "The missile worked out its flight stage without comments," the representative of the Space Center appreciated. Khrunicheva, as Interfax reports.

The Ministry of Culture of the Moscow Region issued a order to stop the demolition of the house of Stroyburo - the sights of the Korolev, after a suspicious fire occurred on Thursday. The nature of the fire indicates arson, write "New Izvestia" . The fire in the constructivism monument began on September 26, at about 7 in the morning. The Moscow Region TV channel clarifies that most of the building has not suffered. The reasons for the fire are unknown.

A fire in the Moscow Police building at Petrovka Street, house 38 occurred in the evening on Monday, September 30. A message about a fire on the roof of the building was received at the service "01" at 18:29 Moscow time - a heater and a wooden crate were burning, Interfax informs. Fire calculations arrived at the scene after four minutes and coped with fire, which took an area of ​​20 square meters. meters in less than half an hour. The fire was liquidated at 18:58.