Besides the 141st, units considered "Kadyrovites" also include the Chechen branches of OMON and SOBR. When Kadyrov was elected Chechen President in 2007 its current official role as a personal protective service was established. In 2006, the Kadyrovites were legalized as a motorized regiment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as the 141st Motorized Regiment. Control of the militia was inherited by his son, Ramzan Kadyrov. Kadyrov defected to the Russian side in the Second Chechen War in 1999, and the Kadyrovites began fighting separatists and jihadists during the " guerrilla phase" as a de facto unit of the state police after he was appointed Chechen President in July 2000. The Kadyrovites originated in 1994 as a Chechen separatist militia under Akhmad Kadyrov, and fought against the Russian Armed Forces for the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the First Chechen War. The term Kadyrovtsy is commonly used in Chechnya to refer to any armed, ethnically- Chechen men under the control of Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov - although nominally they are under the umbrella of the National Guard of Russia. The 141st Special Motorized Regiment ( Russian: 141-й специальный моторизованный полк, romanized: 141-y spetsial'nyy motorizovannyy polk), also known as the Kadyrovites and the Kadyrovtsy (from Russian: Кадыровцы, lit.'Kadyrov's followers'), after Akhmad-Khadzhi Kadyrov, is a paramilitary organization in Chechnya, Russia, that serves as the protection of the Head of the Chechen Republic.