# Kadyrovite
## English
### Etymology

From Kadyrov +‎ -ite, a calque of Russian кадыровец (kadyrovec), from Кадыров (Kadyrov) +‎ -ец (-ec, “person associated with”).

### Noun

Kadyrovite (plural Kadyrovites)
* A member of the 141st Special Motorized Regiment, or any other formation subordinate to Ramzan Kadyrov.
** 2022 March 2, Brigid Kennedy, “Ukraine reportedly foiled a Zelensky assassination plot after a tipoff from Russian authorities”, in The Week‎:"We are well aware of the special operation that was to take place directly by the Kadyrovites to eliminate our president. And I can say that we have received information from the FSB, who today do not want to take part in this bloody war," Danilov said. "And thanks to this, the Kadyrov elite group was destroyed, which came here to eliminate our president."
** [2022 August 18, Mansur Mirovalev, “The real role of pro-Russian Chechens in Ukraine”, in Al Jazeera‎:Most of the Russian servicemen sitting in and atop 34 armed personnel carriers that rolled into Bucha on February 27 were ethnic Chechens, according to Ukrainian military leaders and government officials. Bearded and burly, clad in brand new, perfectly fitting uniforms and toting assault rifles, they hoped to whiz through the leafy suburb northwest of Kyiv to enter the Ukrainian capital on the war’s third day. They are known as “Kadyrovtsy” or “Kadyrovites” after their leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya’s pro-Kremlin strongman, and their reputation preceded them.]
** 2023 June 1, David Brennan, “Why Chechens Can't Replace Wagner in Ukraine”, in Newsweek‎:"The claimed return of Chechen forces to offensive operations would break Kadyrovites from a nearly yearlong hiatus from participating in high-intensity combat operations," the ISW wrote, noting Kadyrov's troops "have been largely operating in the rear after participating in the battles for Mariupol, Severodonetsk, and Lysychansk.
* Any other supporter of or a person close to Ramzan Kadyrov or his father, Akhmad Kadyrov.
** 2011, Anna Politkovskaya, translated by Arch Tait, Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches, Melville House, →ISBN:This state of affairs is not going to last forever. Interests will diverge, and when they do Kadyrov and the Kadyrovites will be in an unenviable position. It is difficult to imagine anywhere on the planet where they will be able to find refuge.
** 2013, Angus Roxburgh, The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:Politkovskaya was taken back to see him again the next morning, and found him with a Kadyrovite in a black T-shirt who snarled at her: 'You should have been shot back in Moscow, in the street, the way they do it in Moscow.'

#### Related terms

* Kadyrovtsy

#### Translations
### Adjective

Kadyrovite (not comparable)
* Supporting or pertaining to the Kadyrovs or their ideas.
** 2018, Dominic Rubin, Russia's Muslim Heartlands: Islam in the Putin Era, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 207:Ruslan Kutaev is evidence of this: not only was the elderly man sentenced to four years in prison (later commuted to two months), but he was tortured and his family threatened. This seems to be the price of viewing the world in other than Kadyrovite terms.
** 2019, John B. Dunlop, The February 2015 Assassination of Boris Nemtsov and the Flawed Trial of his Alleged Killers, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 59:Kadyrovite Chechens, and not Dudaevite Chechens, such as Osmaev, were convicted as the assassins (and this was a clear victory for the FSB), but the "chain leading upwards" was capped at a rather low level (and this was a victory for Putin).

### See also

* Wagnerite