Chechenize

present singular third person Chechenizes · participle present Chechenizing · participle past Chechenized · past Chechenized

1. transitiveTo render Chechen, to assimilate into Chechen language or culture.

   Capitalizing on the dynamic between traditional Sufi Islam and its Salafi opposition, Moscow has successfully Chechenized the conflict since the 2000s.

   2009, Cermyn Moore, Paul Tumelty, “Assessing Unholy Alliances in Chechnya: From Communism and Nationalism to Islamism and Salafism”, in Muslims and Communists in Post-Transition States, New York: Taylor & Francis, published 2014, →DOI, →ISBN, page 128

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   There are to be small local garrisons deployed in about two hundred towns and villages; these are to be supported by the local Chechen militia under Kadyrov's control, the strength of which is to be increased from 5,000 to 15,000 men. At the same time, in an effort to “Chechenize” the conflict and win over Chechen hearts and minds, the prerogatives of Kadyrov's administration are to be broadened.

   2001, Stephen Shenfield, “Chechnya at a Turning Point”, in The Brown Journal of World Affairs, volume 8, number 1, page 67

   while the First War was a clear conflict between Chechen secessionists and the Russian federal center, the Second War was “Chechenized” by the Kremlin.

   2023, Egor Lazarev, State-Building as Lawfare. Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 237