Anglo-Russian Commission
The Anglo-Russia Commission was an office of the British Department of Information established in Saint Petersburg in 1915 that was involved in arranging war supplies from the United Kingdom to Russia.{{cite book|author=Phillip Knightley|title=The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M1fIlAmZKnsC&pg=RA1-PA19|date=30 September 2013|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-1-4464-4297-5|pages=19}}
It was tasked with "propaganda distribution, use of literature and art therefore, political intelligence, and, as agent for the War Office, the dissemination of military news to non-military and non-Dominion authorities"{{cite book|author=Nicholas John Wilkinson|title=Secrecy and the Media: The Official History of the United Kingdom's D-Notice System|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B659AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT144|date=28 May 2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-05253-0|pages=144–}}
The office was closed in the early days of March 1918 when it was reported to have "left British propaganda in Russia almost at a standstill".{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Foreign Office|title=British documents on foreign affairs: reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KrokAQAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=University Publications of America|isbn=978-0-89093-601-6}}
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Category:1915 establishments in the Russian Empire
Category:1918 disestablishments in Russia
Category:United Kingdom in World War I
Category:Government agencies established in 1915