The recurring financial dispute could have political repercussions as well for the country’s pro-Western government as it grapples with the geopolitical realities of being dependent on Russia to keep its 2.5 million people warm.

With her start-up, Museumio, Kravchenko wanted “to explore how technology-led experiences could co-exist with exhibitions in their real-life forms rather than forming their own attractions.”

The talks in Brussels were the first meeting of any sort for more than two years within the Russia-NATO Council.

After eight hours of talks in Geneva, neither side appeared to give any ground. But both expressed willingness to keep talking.

Putin has said nothing about any new incursion more than seven years after Russia annexed the Crimea peninsula and Moscow proxies took over large chunks of eastern Ukraine – 14,000 people have died in the ensuing conflict.