evidence: Crimea is also an alarming illustration of how Russia governs the territory that it seizes. In Crimea, Russian occupiers have eradicated the free and independent press. They have arbitrarily detained, tortured, disappeared human rights defenders, journalists, and other civil society activists who dare to document Russia’s abuses or criticize its purported annexation. [...] Crimea is not an isolated case – it’s a blueprint. This is how Russia governs every part of Ukraine that it occupies. And it’s what we can expect Putin would do whenever and wherever he seizes Ukrainian territory.