The kids are back at school, and summer is officially over. We’re back to early mornings, lunchboxes, school runs, homework, activities — and the everyday logistics of family life with three kids in Dubai
A Dubai mortgage is more than a down payment. I built a calculator that works out real cash required for the transaction, payments, DBR, DLD fees, bank valuation, returns and rent-versus-buy — in Russian, English and Arabic.
In two hours at a Dubai café, Anna — my secret business adviser — and I went from an idea to a B2B product: ChatGPT shaped the industry logic and data, Codex built the web service, and Cloudflare took it to production.
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Yesterday, 20 August, AGMC
At The CARS Café at Dubai Autodrome, AGMC unveiled the MINI 1965 Victory Edition — a modern JCW honouring the Mini Cooper S #52 victory at the 1965 Rallye Monte-Carlo. For us, MINI has long been more than a car: it is a small family generator of joy.
The calendar presented its bill: 6,574 days under a blinding sun and 43.2% of my life on this side of our wedding day. Through hot concrete and millions of erased minutes, one equation remained: 2 → 5
From rockets over Dubai and empty villas in Tilal Al Ghaf to a surname overheard by chance and a black-and-green office on the thirty-fifth floor of the Citadel. That is how, in the summer of 2026, I ended up at Nevsky Realty
For almost two years, several evenings a week, Ira traded home life for the lecture rooms of Middlesex University Dubai. Now that long route has ended with a Master of Laws diploma — and another point on our map of Dubai
I recently put together an investment pitch for Yango Power in Oman. The project is launching a power-bank rental network in Muscat and is now raising $150K for the first stage of scaling
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