text: William Pitt the Younger unsuccessfully pursued an armament policy against this country as part of the Triple Alliance.
full_question: William Pitt the Younger unsuccessfully pursued an armament policy against this country as part of the Triple Alliance. This country warmly received the explorer Richard Chancellor. Ramsay MacDonald's Labor Party lost the 1924 general election in part due to a controversial and probably forged letter written by a government official from this country. Its navy accidentally fired on some British fishing vessels in the (*) Dogger Bank incident. In the Great Game, this country and the United Kingdom vied for supremacy of Central Asia. In the 16th century, this country granted trade privileges to England at its port of Arkhangelsk. For 10 points, name this country that opened trade relations with England during the reign of Ivan the Terrible.
first_sentence: William Pitt the Younger unsuccessfully pursued an armament policy against this country as part of the Triple Alliance.
raw_answer: Russia [or the Soviet Union or USSR] 