On Tuesday, the euro fell to near parity against the dollar for the first time since 2002, the early days of the eurozone. This is not good news for Russia Today, several agencies reported that the parity of the euro against the dollar was reached for a few seconds.

Automaker BMW began to sell a subscription to heated seats. Its cost will be almost $18 per month. Exactly when BMW launched the heated seat subscription and in which countries exactly is unknown. But deliveries of models with the new service were reported this week by several car dealerships in South Korea. According to The Verge, a monthly subscription to BMW's heated front seats costs about $18, and there's also an option to get an annual subscription for $180.

Western sanctions on Russia do not work - this is one of the most discussed topics in recent weeks. The sanctions policy has reached a ceiling, and its further expansion threatens to cause too much damage to the rest of the world and the Western countries themselves, but at the same time, it probably will not change the behavior of the Russian dictator, Western analysts and politicians almost unanimously agree.

Vladimir Putin has increased the number of deputy prime ministers in the government, one of whom, according to the decree, is now the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Mikhail Mishustin has already submitted to the State Duma the candidacy of current Minister Denis Manturov. Meduza previously wrote about his promotion (recognized as a foreign agent in Russia). Vladimir Putin introduced a new position of Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.

The euro fell to parity against the dollar for the first time in 20 years. What's next? What's happened? On Tuesday, July 12, the euro fell close to parity with the dollar — and may even have reached parity for the first time since the eurozone's infancy in 2002. With small differences between the market price and the target price, delays and rounding errors can affect the result, so several agencies reported that there was exact parity for several seconds.

VK continues to search for assets in the Russian Internet market. This time the company plans to strengthen its Edtech direction. As The Bell found out, the company is discussing a deal to buy the online language school Skyeng. This is the last major independent player in the Russian online education market. However, the sale of VK is not the only option Skyeng shareholders are considering. The other is access to the Moscow Exchange.

Vladimir Putin will travel to Tehran on July 19 for talks with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts Ebrahim Raisi and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. For the Russian president, this will be the second foreign trip since the beginning of the “special operation”. The visit was announced at a briefing by Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, earlier this was reported by the Iranian official news agency, citing the chairman of the economic commission of the parliament.

The state will take user data, Siluanov about ruble and Gazprom from business and talk about investment in Bell.club The mincifers proposed to oblige the business to the state to transfer data from users without preliminary depersonalization - it will have to be carried out by state bodies themselves. The preliminary consent of users will not be asked for such an appeal with their data either. Business and security experts like a proposal for a proposal.