Russian Best Brand in German's student opinion

     Vera is exchange student from Germany, Hochschule Heilbronn. Now she's studying at the Syktyvkar University in the summer semester 2010/2011. 

     She supposes that the most well-known Russian brand is AvtoVAZ (Russian automobile manufacturer formerly known as VAZ: Volzhsky Avtomobilny Zavod, but better known to the world under the trade name Lada).
     Currently Lada is exporting cars for about 14 countries [source]