What is interesting about Kaspersky is how little Russian state malware / spying tools they find / report on at least in comparison to what they discussion about such software from other countries.
As an end user you should consider if your AV vendor's country of origin is compatible with your own interests.
Kaspersky doesn't even have to have anyone tell them that for there to be an impact.
Kaspersky's analysis and information they choose to share may be accurate (and let's be clear I'm sure they also don't share some western tidbits if "asked"). At the same time some of their data, simply due to their location, we can assume their choices on what / how they share is skewed. That's not a recrimination directed at the individuals there, just a recognition of a fact of life for them.
Comments like this, from Kaspersky PR, are interesting don't you think?
"Kaspersky Lab has never helped, nor will help, any government in the world with its cyberespionage or offensive cyber efforts, and it's disconcerting that a private company can be treated as guilty merely due to geopolitical issues."
This tells some of it but I would recommend you do some checking yourself. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/15/kaspersky_labs_anno...
The more curious part is the other part: What Kaspersky does, or does not. You, for example, do not say "here are links to Avast's web site for 2/5/10/20 Russian threats that Avast detects and Kaspersky doesn't". All you do is link to more innuendo and suspicion.
In this age of databases that suspicion ought eventually to show up in database records.
Second, not true at all. Plenty of apt groups have been written up by secure labs that are russian state associated.
Do you have some source/stats on that? It seems plausible, but I haven't really seen this mentioned anywhere before.