981 At the time of his Q4 2016 meeting with Putin, Aven was generally aware of the press coverage about Russian interference in the U.S. election. According to Aven, he did not discuss that topic with Putin at any point, and Putin did not mention the rationale behind the threat of new sanctions. Aven 8/2/18 302, at 5-7. 982 Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 983 Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 984 Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 985 Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 986 Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 987 Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Aven 8/2/18 302, at 6. 988 Aven 8/2/18 302, at 4-8; Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 989 Nader provided information to the Office in multiple interviews, all but one of which were conducted under a proffer agreement, Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █. The investigators also interviewed Prince under a proffer agreement. Bannon was interviewed by the Office, Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ under a proffer agreement. 990 Kirill Dmitriev Biography, Russian Direct Investment Fund, available at https://rdif.ru/Eng_person_dmitriev_kirill/. See also Overview, Russian Direct Investment Fund, available at https://rdif.ru/Eng_About/. 991 Gerson 6/15/18 302, at 1. See also, e.g., 12/14/16 Text Message, Dmitriev to Gerson; 1/9/17 Text Message, Dmitriev to Gerson. 992 Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 993 Nader 1/22/18 302, at 1-2; Nader 1/23/18 302, at 2-3; 5/3/16 Email, Nader to Phares; Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 994 Nader 1/22/18 302, at 1-2. 995 Nader 1/22/18 302, at 3. 996 Nader 1/22/18 302, at 3; Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 997 Nader 1/22/18 302, at 3; Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 998 Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 999 Nader 1/22/18 302, at 3.