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[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Joseph Mifsud ? This mystery professor is likely  Joseph Mifsud of the University of Stirling in Scotland . According to a calendar entry on the Valdai clubâs website   Mifsud  spoke on a Valdai panel on April 19  2016  titled  âWorld Energy: Key Trends and Political Risks.â  Mifsud  grew up in the Mediterranean nation of Malta  where  he  served in various government posts;  he  was the only Londoner and the only professor on the panel. The Mueller legal filing revealed that Papadopoulos had extensive contacts with the professor as part of an effort to set up a meeting between Trump campaign representatives and Russian officials. Papadopoulos told his campaign supervisors about this effort and was encouraged to proceed. Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with the professor and others connected to Russia.
The Washington Post noted on Monday that  Mifsud  is probably the professor cited in the Mueller statement. One of the emails quoted in the document  according to the Post  âappears to match one described to the Washington Post in August in which Papadopoulos identified the professor with whom he met as Joseph Mifsud  the director of the London Academy of Diplomacy.â But the Post reported that in August Mifsud told the newspaper he had âabsolutely no contact with the Russian government â and he insisted his ties to Russia were purely academic.
The public record  though  contains information contradicting  Mifsud  and showing that  he  has had contacts with Russian government officials. According to photos on the website of Russiaâs embassy in the United Kingdom   Mifsud  met with embassy representative Ernest Chernukhin in July of this year (weeks before  he  issued  his  denial to the Post). A biography from a 2013 business conference says  Mifsud  âhas advised Governments on international education issues in many countries including Morocco  Syria  Russia  Tunisia  and Italy.â  Mifsud  also met with Russian Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko in May of 2014  according to a 2014 Russian embassy press release.
Additionally  in early 2017   Mifsud  invited Alexey Klishin  a department head and professor in the international law division of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations  a school run by Russiaâs Foreign Ministry  to the London Academy of Diplomacy to present a lecture. Klishin was a former member of the upper house of the Russian parliament. According to a January 2017 press release from the Institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences  âKlishinâs presentation was devoted to international law and national legal systems [and] to their coexistence in the era of Brexit and the new presidency in the United States.â The release noted that Klishin had âvisited the London Academy of Diplomacy at the University of Stirlingâ¦at the invitation of  the Director Joseph Mifsud .â Hereâs a photo with  Mifsud  (second from the right) and Klishin (center) standing next to each other:
 Mifsud  did not respond to a request for comment from Mother Jones.
One obvious question for the professor is why he told the Post he had âabsolutelyâ no contacts with Russian officials when on-line material suggests he has. There are no indication in the Mueller statement whether his team has questioned  Mifsud  about the Clinton âdirtâ or Papadopoulosâs initiative to create a back-channel bond between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putinâs office.
Thereâs another reason why  Mifsud  could be of interest to Mueller and his investigators. In the past year  the New York Times has reported that US intelligence agencies collected information in the summer of 2016 indicating that top Russian intelligence and political officials were looking to gain influence over Trump through his advisers and that US spy agencies had intercepted calls showing that Trump campaign aides and other Trump associates had repeated interactions with senior Russian intelligence officials  perhaps unwittingly. (In June  former FBI chief James Comey  in congressional testimony  disputed the Times story disclosing contacts between the Trump aides and Russian intelligence  but he did not specify what was wrong with the article.) So Mueller is no doubt looking for possible instances of when Russian intelligence infiltratedâor tried to infiltrateâthe Trump campaign  either directly or through witting or unwitting cut-outs. And the Papadopoulos episode could be a case not only of a Trump aide trying to establish a campaign connection with the Kremlin but of Russian intelligence attempting to score a contact within the Trump campaign.
[EX A]: Positive

[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Deborah Danner ? City EMT Patrick Moore said he was prepared to move emotionally disturbed  Deborah Danner  safely out of  her  Bronx apartment â and then the shooting started.
An angry  Danner   66  had stopped screaming as Moore went to grab a chair used to move patients. A half-dozen police officers simultaneously entered  her  bedroom on Oct. 18  2016  the first responder testified Friday.
âI assumed they were going to restrain  her  â said Moore under questioning from Bronx prosecutor Newton Mendys in the murder trial of NYPD Sgt. Hugh Barry.
Instead  Moore recounted  he heard cops shouting at the heavy-set older woman to âput it down  get downâ â apparently a reference to a baseball bat that  Danner  was holding.
 Deborah Danner  asked to be left alone before fatal NYPD shooting
 Deborah Danner  (Facebook)
Moore recounted that the EMTs could hear  Danner  screaming when they reached the seventh floor of the building. When they reached  her  apartment   Danner  was holding a pair of scissors in  her  hands.
Front page of New York Daily News for June 1 shows Barry charged with  Danner 's murder. (New York Daily News)
Within a short time   Danner  was conducting a âfairly normal conversation with Brittney â Moore testified  adding that he kept his distance from the patient to avoid upsetting  her  âin any way.â
Barryâs lawyer has argued the sergeant was forced to make a split-second life or death decision when  Danner  grabbed the baseball bat.
â Mrs. Danner  was the aggressor and  she  was about to kill my client â said defense attorney Andrew Quinn.
[EX A]: Positive

[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Steven Mnuchin ? Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin  announced Friday that the United States is imposing the toughest sanctions ever put in place against the Communist regime in North Korea for its nuclear program.
âThis action targets the deceptive shipping practices that enable the Kim regime to fund its dangerous weapons programs â  Mnuchin  said. âOur actions target shipping and trade companies  vessels  and individuals across the world who we know are working on North Koreaâs behalf.â
Specifically   Mnuchin  said  the sanctions target 27 entities  28 vessels  and 1 individual for evading existing sanctions.
âTodayâs actions will significantly hinder North Koreaâs ability to conduct evasive maritime activities that facilitate illicit coal and fuel transports  limit the regimeâs ability to ship goods through international waters â  Mnuchin  said. âOur actions are part of the ongoing maximum economic pressure campaign to cut off sources of revenue that this regime derives from the U.N. and U.S. prohibited trades to fund its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.â
âWe are releasing new imagery of the deceptive shipping practices used by those who aid and profit from illicit trade with North Korea â  Mnuchin  said.
 Mnuchin  said the images from December of last year show transfer of fuel and other products from ships to ships bound for North Korea.
âThey shine a spotlight on the practices employed by the government of North Korea to falsify identifying information on ships and conceal illicit cargo â  Mnuchin  stated  noting this behavior also violates the United Nations Security Council resolutions.
 He  said the U.S. is âputting companies and countries on noticeâ about dealings with North Korea and that the Trump administration âviews compliance with U.S. and U.N. sanctions as a national security imperative.â
âThe United States will leverage our economic strength to enforce President Trumpâs directive that any company that chooses to help North Korea fund its nuclear and ballistic missile programs will not be allowed to do business with anyone in the United States â  Mnuchin  said.
 Mnuchin  slammed North Korea for financing nuclear weapons while  its  people suffer and starve.
Meanwhile  at the White House   Mnuchin  said the U.S. is determined to reach its ultimate goal for North Korea.
âThe United States will not sit idly by while he threatens American allies and territories â  Mnuchin  said. âThis administration is committed to full  irreversible  and permanent denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.â
[EX A]:
Neutral