Comment Re: uh no (Score 1) 169
It is actually pretty simple unless you are a bot, of course. The vikings didn't annex russia, they have merely replaced the rulers with one of theirs, keeping the rest as it was.
The mongol conquest also hasn't been an annexation. It was more like a racket, with the russian princes paying protection money while being free to launch wars of conquest on their own. Pretty common in history, really. See danegeld as an another example.