Anglo-Russian Entente 1907
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
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On 31 August 1907, Britain and Russia signed an agreement in St Petersburg which put in place the final piece of the alliance system which has widely been considered to have been a major contributing factor regarding the outbreak of the First World War.