RFLKT's sleek profile and lowly 2 ounce weight, make it virtually unnoticeable when mounted, while the coin cell operated battery has a life of over one year and requires no charging.
So while this story will no doubt be yet another in a long line of Russian PR disasters, the actual real world impact will be so muted as to be unnoticeable.
You could do entitlement reforms, which are quite unnoticeable because you could protect the people who are currently getting them ... you could make technical fixes such as having the benefits tied to inflation rather than wage increases.