Doubtful. Russia can barely fund the program they have today. They have to rely on NASA and space tourists paying $10 million per ride just to
keep the program alive. A trip to Mars would take hundreds of millions of dollars to plan, test and execute.
My money is on China making it to Mars first. I can see them bypassing some of the ethical considerations around astronauts lives. I would expect
them to launch numerous missions within the next 10 years and not tell anyone what is happening until they have either succeded or the news somehow
leaks out.

