00:00The Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 was an agreement signed on August 31, 1907 between the United Kingdom and the
00:06Imperial Russia in Saint Petersburg.
00:08Signed by Alexander Izvolsky for Russia and Arthur Nicholson, and negotiated by Edward Gray for the United Kingdom, this agreement
00:15seems to have put an end to a long power struggle that had taken place at the expense of less developed regions
00:19developed in Central Asia.
00:20He defined the respective spheres of influence of Russia and Great Britain in Persia, Afghanistan and the
00:27Tibet and led to the formation of what would become the Triple Entente.
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