“They did offer to pay my way and I said, No thank you.”

Sounds like a VIP to me. She was also sitting at the table with the keynote speaker, Michael Flynn.

Until now, Stein hasn’t offered many details about how she came to be there or what happened beyond saying it was “a great opportunity to lay out some of my foreign policy proposals and get Russian reactions to them.”

So she wanted Putin’s approval on her foreign policy?

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/jill-stein-says-nothing-happened-at-her-dinner-with-putin/