To their defense, the Russian police actually does locate stolen phones. The German police does spy on us, but never gives us the location of our stolen or lost phones, because they say that it is not their job.
In reality, all of the governments use this kind of surveillance tech, but only Russia is OK to provide it openly to the real people on the street.
There are a lot of things that the RUSS government does very badly, but some they do much better then the hypocritical governments in the west.
The govt. debt of example, they were strong enough to just default on it and move on in 1998. The EU is crippling itself over debt and is dragging millions into poverty over it. It is the same hypocrisy that let's them protect our privacy in public, but actually spy on us in private.
I am very sure this phone locator tech will get abused, but at least they provide non-abuse services with it too, unlike the governments that do not even admit that they use such technology.