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by rafram 1566 days ago
Never based out of Moscow, never a Russian company. The founders are Russian but the company has always been based in Prague, although a lot of the employees work from Russia.
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Based on relative size of Russian and Prague offices, around 1500 out of total 1900 employees worked in Russia.
And core employees are Russian, with many having relocated at some point in the past; here are most of the people from this list: https://www.jetbrains.com/company/people/

- CEO is a Russian who lives in Cyprus now: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergey-dmitriev-05b581/

- Cofounder is Russian, probably lives in Russia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentin-kipyatkov-13569590/?ori...

- CEO is Russian, lives in the Netherlands: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximshafirov/

- CAO is Russian, lives in the Netherlands: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yury-belyaev-a1608b5a/

- SVP of investments is Russian, lives in Russia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaivanov/

- development lead is Russian, lives in Germany: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximmossienko/

Kotlin was named after an island in St. Petersburg archipelago. Kotlin project lead is Russian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/relizarov/

Kotlin core contributors seem to be mostly Russian: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/graphs/contributors

So it definitely isn't a decision what won't have any effect on the company.