Teacher:In this task, you will be presented with a text, a pronoun from the text, and two candidate names. You should determine what the pronoun refers to and classify the answers into A, B, or Neither. A and B here are referring to option A and option B. Position of the pronoun in the text is showed within two "_"s.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Among the regions, Moscow (and its region) and St. Petersburg (with the Leningrad region) continued to occupy leading positions: their share was nearly half (45%) of the total number of signatures. However, the fastest growing was the Volga Federal District, showing an increase of 6.9 times. Russian writer and opinion journalist Nikolai Starikov organized a vote in the Internet with a plea that Putin must stay. _He_motivated his move with the suggestion that everybody must have a choice, while the website ``Putin must go'' did not provide an option to vote for Putin's staying. <sep>, Pronoun: He <sep>, A: Nikolai Starikov <sep>, B: Putin
Student:
A