u/snapp3r - originally from r/GenZhou
According to Lenin, the five basic features are:

  1. The concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life
  2. the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital”, of a financial oligarchy;
  3. the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance;
  4. the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves, and
  5. the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed.

Does Russia fulfill this criteria?

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    u/Blanksheet911 - originally from r/GenZhou
    Remember that Russia is not a communist country and its runned by capitalist oligarchs, this is imperialism by default, it’s not like China that is runned by the party. However the Russian Federation is not as bad as western imperialism, the Russian population is not abandoned like dogs.

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      u/parentis_shotgun - originally from r/GenZhou
      Being a capitalist country does not make it imperialist. Is somalia, or sri lanka, or bangladesh, or the phillipines imperialist? Please learn to define that term.

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        u/Blanksheet911 - originally from r/GenZhou
        Correct me if I am wrong but the people of Russia only started to take control over the country in 2000. It’s still in process of unification.