The same situation for any other snap app in the store, e.g. https://snapcraft.io/vlc (see map at the bottom of the page).

As far as I know, Linux is massively used at the state level in Russia, for example, in schools and universities.

Well either Linux is incredibly popular in Russia or ROSA desktop a Russian distro is almost certainly over represented at 8.6% share. It might do to check if anyone installs hw-probe by default or promotes it to its user base.

Sounds like ROSA probably includes it by default; maybe with a "send your hardware stats in" button.

I think I've seen something like that with Ubuntu but I assume it would go to Canonical only.