Ron Paul Institute

The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity is a project of Dr. Paul’s Foundation for Rational Economics and Education (F.R.E.E.), founded in the 1970s as an educational organization. The Institute continues and expands Dr. Paul’s lifetime of public advocacy for a peaceful foreign policy and the protection of civil liberties at home.

Leadership

• Ron Paul Chairman and Founder

• Daniel McAdams Executive Director

• Adam Dick Senior Fellow

ADVISORY BOARD

• Rep. John Duncan, Jr., represented the 2nd Congressional District of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives.
• Gary Heavin
• Dennis Kucinich
• Rep. Thomas Massie
• Judge Andrew Napolitano
• Llewellyn Rockwell, Jr.
• David Stockman

ACADEMIC BOARD

• Prof. Mark Almond
• Michael Scheuer
• Dr. Louis Fisher
• Dr. John Laughland
• Prof. Flynt Leverett
• Prof. Hillary Mann Leverett
• Eric Margolis
• Prof. Claes Ryn

IN MEMORIUM

• Rep. Walter B. Jones
• Faith Whittlesey
• Prof. Butler Shaffer

Russian connections

In late April 1999, Representative Curt Weldon took a congressional delegation including Dennis Kucinich, Bernie Sanders, Roscoe Bartlett and others to Kosovo. The purpose of this delegation was to negotiate a Kosovo peace agreement. The negotiations involved our delegation, a group of Russian Duma members, and people close to genocidal dictator Slobodan Milosevic. Russia also sent Russian Mob connected Victor Chernomyrdin as its envoy to Kosovo.

David Swanson was Kucinich’s Press Secretary in 2004. He would go on to write for the Ron Paul Institute, and attend friendship tours with Russia as recently as 2017. He was even approached by Russian Intelligence at one point. He also interviewed Jill Stein about her platform in the 2016 election.

At the 2008 World Russia Forum, Putin propagandist Edward Lozansky introduced Kucinich as a congressman who was close to Russia, whereupon Kucinich gave an eight-minute presentation about how we should be friends with Russia. This speech was his second appearance at this forum, and was delivered shortly after Andranik Migranyan, the man who ran the New York office of Putin’s Think-Tank the “Institute of Democracy and Cooperation.”

Reportedly IDC was an invention based on conversations had between Paul Manafort, Dimitri Simes, Oleg Deripaska and/or Gleb Pavlovsky.

The Discovery Institute is a conservative think tank which co-sponsored the World Russia Forum beginning in 2009.

Kucinich had a speaking slot at the 2010 World Russia Forum. The Russian Orthodox Church sent its emissaries there, as well as Russian Alexander Torshin.

Ed Lozansky, Daniel McAdams, and Dennis Kucinich were all listed as contact points by the Mark Saylor Company lobbying by the Putin backed, break away Republics of of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in 2010. These Republics were created as ways for Putin to weaken former Soviet States around him in order to gain control over them.

Former Representative Kucinich started off 2013 by signing on as a Fox News Contributor. He spent the rest of Obama’s presidency criticizing his foreign policy — on Fox News and Russia Today.

In April 2013, Kucinich joined the Ron Paul Institute which is a libertarian Republican think tank, and was working on defending the Russian spy Edward Snowden, at the time.

The Ron Paul Institute has a curiously pro-Putin bent, and is led by a contributor to the Russia’s top propaganda website which was forced by the US Department of Justice to register as an agency of the Kremlin.

The Ron Paul Institute’s Executive Director is Daniel McAdams, Russia Today Contributor and Fellow at the Dr Edward Lozansky’s American University in Moscow. John Laughland is on the board with Kucinich, but his central role is to run the Putin funded Paris office of the think tank the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation.

The IDC was founded as an effort to “repair Russia’s damaged image in the US and Europe and at the same time extend the reach and influence of the [Government of Russia],” according to a U.S. State Department cable published by Wikileaks.

Laughland, McAdams, and RPI academic board member Mark Almond also worked for the now-defunct British Helsinki Human Rights Group, a pro-Kremlin NGO that defended dictators against human rights abuse charges.

In 2011, Ron Paul Institute Executive Director registered a website called the Daily Putin. McAdams has been very outspoken in his criticism of US foreign from a Russia centric point of view.

By any account, Kucinich has joined the chorus of Pro-Putin people in the United States by blaming the United States for Russia’s invasion of Crimea, advocating for Georgian Breakaway regions with McAdams and Lozansky and his constant attempts to ensure Assad stays in power in Syria.

More recently, Kucinich has touted the Conventional Kremlin line, siding with Trump. He called the Trump campaign’s infamous meeting with Russian agents “nothing,” praised Trump’s inauguration speech as “unifying” and “great,” and has spouted the Trump lines about the Deep State trying to destroy his presidency. His twitter reads like any right wing talk show hosts would when talking about the election.