Not that it much matters, of course. She is well outside the range of American jurisdiction and Russian authorities aren’t about to give her back. Still, it makes you wonder how well our “reset” relations are working. Answer: Just about as craptastically as before.

Anyway, here’s the story. Julia Ioffe is a journalist based in Moscow. She wanted to interview Chapman about the recent ordeal, so she sent the Russian spy a message on Facebook (Chapman didn’t keep a low profile). Today she received a response:

Anna Chapman has responded to my interview request via FB, telling me I should “take part in a bid this week and send your offer along.”

If you’re unclear on the meaning, Chapman is soliciting bids for an interview like an ex-mistress of Tiger Woods.

Ioffe follows up minutes later:

Which, btw, is a direct violation of her plea bargain, which says she cannot profit from her story.

Indeed, Mark Hosenball of Newsweek reported yesterday:

Anna Chapman, the flame-haired femme fatale who became the poster girl for the recent U.S.-Russia spy swap, intends—for now, at least—to abide by a plea-bargain provision supposedly barring her from selling her story. But she has considered selling (or at least telling) it, her lawyer, Robert Baum, has acknowledged in a conversation and e-mails with Declassified.

According to people familiar with the wildly competitive checkbook journalism of London’s Fleet Street tabloids, Chapman could net a substantial fortune from the tale of how she allegedly became a Russian undercover operative assigned to infiltrate American society. And Baum admits that his client had reason to worry about money when she accepted the plea agreement, given that her online real-estate firm had been effectively derailed by her arrest. “She felt that the only source of income that she might have was based on her story,” says Baum.

There’s just one problem: a clause in the plea deal says Chapman and the other deported sleeper agents will turn over to the U.S. government any proceeds they might get from selling their stories, whether such profits come to them directly or to an associate or family member.

Her former lawyer, Baum, says Chapman is well-aware of the terms of her plea deal. So she would be willingly and blatantly violating her agreement with the federal government.

But again, none of this actually means a hill of beans. Chapman is well-outside American jurisdiction and Russia isn’t about to help us, no matter how many times we push a little red button on a yellow box.