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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].
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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Putin ? The most visible and adept foe of the  Putin  regime  Alexei Navalny  wants to enter the race but is legally barred. TV host Ksenia Sobchak has tossed her hat in the ring  but no one knows if she can meet the registration requirements or if she's effectively a red herring.
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Positive


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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Saad Hariri ? Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri  suspended  his  resignation after the country’s president called for talks on how and why  he  ended up in Saudi Arabia this month and quit suddenly.
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Negative


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What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Makeyev ? As the months passed   Makeyevâs managers  became increasingly frustrated as  their  American partners ran into a series of obstacles  including reservations about whether the joint venture was permissible under U.S.-Russian arms-control agreements. In April 1993  Gen. Colin L. Powell  then the Joint Chiefs chairman  informed Sea Launch Investors that the project could not proceed without a government review and a formal waiver of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. No waiver was granted  and by the spring of 1995  it was clear that the company was at a dead end.
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Neutral