Muscovy 1530. Diploannexed Pskov, completely settled Nogai and Kazakh.
Fought a war against the Mamluks, kicking them out of Georgia, and they eventually got covered in revolts, in which Syria gained independence. Later on Persia declared war on Armenia, who is in my sphere of influence, and I came to their defense. Lithuania also took the opportunity to try and reconquer their lands. But considering I had enough money and maintenance space to raise an army twice the size of theirs, in addition to what I already had, I quickly defeated them and their ally Zaporozhie. Took Minsk from Lithuania to make that border a little bit nicer, and vassalized Zaporozhie.
Persia initially gave me a bit of trouble as a result of most of my armies not being close enough. But once they showed up it was a completely one sided battle. Got halfway across Persia when I got bored of that war and signed a peace treaty forcing them to release Qara Koyunlu. Of course, this now means I have a new horde nation on my border, but my armies have to cross it to get back to Muscovy anyways.
I also have Chagatai completely occupied, but thats simply because I'm settling one of their provinces that has a centre of trade in it.
Still have about 30 years before I can get a core on Smolensk and form Russia, so just building up and colonizing to the east.
Red outlined countries are vassals.
