Task: Quantify the arousal intensity of the sentence, assigning it a value between 0 (highly calm) and 1 (highly energetic), reflecting the emotional tone conveyed.
Sentence: Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, he has been implicated in arms trading and Russian art smuggling, and in the Russian news media he was accused of complicity in a plot to extort $10 million from the head of a Russian sports foundation.
Intensity score: 