I don’t think there’s a chance of actual socialism in the near term, but it is worth noting that USSR is regarded as a time when Russia was a superpower. Lots of people who lived during Soviet times are still alive and overwhelmingly speak positively of it. So, there isn’t a comparable level of anti-communist propaganda that there is in the west. And, now that Russia is being pushed into China’s orbit we’ll necessarily see influence from Chinese system in Russia. A lot of people are looking at China and realizing that this could’ve been them if different decisions were made in the 90s.

On top of that, Russian economy is already organized in a similar fashion to Chinese economy. State owned enterprise accounts for around half the economy, and government tends to exercise direction over private enterprise as well. I’d argue this creates more favorable conditions for transition to socialism than what we see in the west.

So, I definitely think there is a very real possibility of Russia transitioning to becoming a socialist state that’s modelled on China in the long run.