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Her story behind this is so funny too. She's claims she was already sitting there, when Putin and a handler just walked up and sat down. No one said anything because no one spoke Russian (though Putin speaks English and German, and apparently didn't have a translater handy at this international event). Since no one could talk, they awkwardly got up after a while and walked off!
Sounds extremely plausible and defensible to me, don't see what people are so hung up about! /s
Not to mention it was an event in celebration of Russian TV network RT, the blatantly propagandist government news outlet.
Even without Putin at the table, WTF is she doing there?
IIRC, Putin can speak English perfectly well, but he insists that you either speak Russian or go through translators as a kind of power move.
Which doesn't make her story any more plausible, of course.