December 2015: Michael Flynn, Jill Stein (foreground) and Margarita Simonyan during Vladimir Putin's address at RT's 10th Anniversary celebrations, Moscow. Source: RT/Youtube.
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Before Crimea, everyone “cooperated with the Russians”. And until mid-2016, no one knew what to think or do with this history of cooperation. Sanctions hardly made a dent in this “cooperation regime”.
