TASK DEFINITION: Given a sentence and an entity, the task is to select the authors sentiment towards the enity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the sentence expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the sentence expresses no clear view towards the entity or has equal amounts of positive and negative statements or expressing some fact/quote by someone else. Select Negative if the sentence expresses a negative view towards like harsh remarks, criticizing entities action/decision etc. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Putin ? Russian President Vladimir Putin  says an explosion at a St. Petersburg supermarket on Wednesday was a terrorist act  and that another attack in the city had been foiled by the country's security service.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Anwar Sadek Shah ?  he 's among the Rohingya refugees who escaped from Rakhine State by boat largely before 2015  when There are thousands of children like Anwar in Malaysia —he's among the Rohingya refugees who escaped from Rakhine State by boat largely before 2015  when Kuala Lumpur began turning back Rohingya arrivals.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Lee Whitcraft ?  Whitcraft  said  she  got a phone call from the company offering the drug at a discounted rate  months after  she  had come to the difficult decision to stop taking it.  She  wondered  if the company could offer  her  a discount on an individual basis  why they couldn't just lower the price for everyone.

SOLUTION:
Neutral