I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.

On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.

As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.

In the mid-1990s, when Russia was undergoing a construction boom, I entered the real estate development market.

I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.