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Code:
historical_idea_groups = {
    religious_ideas
    exploration_ideas
    defensive_ideas
    trade_ideas
    offensive_ideas
    maritime_ideas
    economic_ideas
    quality_ideas
}

Garbage. I understand the logic for religious as a first pick, but with trying to put ADM into it while trying to core everything they're taking from Novgorod and the Hordes they fall behind and fail at both. Then Exploration? This makes absolutely no sense for anyone that's not a going for the Americas. Muscovy's national ideas already explore Siberia for them, and they won't need tariffs or naval forcelimit for much so this is a complete waste for them. The rest are okay, though I'd question maritime and quality for them.

My suggestion is to make the initial order something like Defensive-Religious-Influence. The first three ideas are typically the most crucial, and these are just what an AI Muscovy needs. Defensive helps with the Russian winter, preserving their manpower for multiple fronts. Religion helps them expand into the Horde lands and Influence helps them annex their vassals, make allies and take further demands.

Beyond that just for thematic appropriateness I'd swap Economic with Expansion and Quality with Aristocratic and move them further up in the order.
 
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1) They don't necessarily take those ideas in that order
2) You want a non-western nation to take a MIL idea first? AI Muscovy already lags on miltary tech...
 

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1) But they do take those ideas. Muscovy takes exploration early on now. Muscovy taking exploration period is a problem.

2) They're early opponents are low tech too, so they won't fall too far behind. Besides military points are the most readily available.