If you see no connection between Muscovy around 1300, Moscow, and modern Russia, I have nothing else to say. Up to this day, Russia rules about 15 ethnicities it previously subdued, so apparently not expansionist, not an empire, and doesn't need to give away any more territories to where they belong. They just need another hundred years to completely destroy native languages and culture.
If you see no connection between Muscovy around 1300, Moscow, and modern Russia, I have nothing else to say. Up to this day, Russia rules about 15 ethnicities it previously subdued, so apparently not expansionist, not an empire, and doesn't need to give away any more territories to where they belong. They just need another hundred years to completely destroy native languages and culture.