Justice & Law Quote by Akhmad Kadyrov

The line wears the sober mask of housekeeping, but it’s really a blueprint for consolidating power. Kadyrov frames the police as a body infected by a tiny number of “traitors” and promises a “cleansing” that will “simplify” the entire security problem. The rhetoric is surgical: name a small, supposedly knowable enemy within, remove it, and suddenly terrorism collapses for lack of “contacts.” That’s strategically comforting and politically useful, because it turns a messy insurgency into an internal personnel issue - one the state can solve with purges, loyalty tests, and discipline.

The subtext is an argument for extraordinary latitude. “Traitors” is a deliberately elastic category: it can mean genuine double agents, rival clans, inconvenient officials, or anyone who doesn’t fold into the ruling chain of command. By implying that terrorists survive mainly through informers in the police, Kadyrov shifts attention away from public grievances, heavy-handed tactics, or legitimacy deficits. Violence becomes a symptom of infiltration, not of failed governance. That story absolves leadership and makes dissent indistinguishable from collaboration.

Context matters: in Chechnya’s postwar landscape - a battleground of insurgency, revenge, and shifting allegiances - the security services weren’t just institutions; they were networks. “Cleansing” signals not only counterintelligence but the reordering of those networks under a single patron. The sentence about terrorists having “no one to contact” isn’t naive; it’s aspirational. It imagines a sealed state where information flows only upward, and where control is achieved less by persuading the public than by monopolizing the channels through which anyone might resist.