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Visuals — Ukrainian nonprofit media project for the creation and dissemination
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issues. It functions as pages in the social networks
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.Wikimedia Ukraine: Infographics UA changed its name to Visuals and moved to free licensing
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/ref> In November 2015, Visuals gave permission to publish all their material licensed under the
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CC-BY-SA-4.0.


Name

At first the project was known as «Infographics (UA)». On November 4, 2015, the name changed to «Visuals».


History

The project came in January 2015 at the height of Russia's military aggression against Ukraine. The main topics covered at the project site - the situation in the
Eastern Ukraine Eastern Ukraine or East Ukraine (; ) is primarily the territory of Ukraine east of the Dnipro (or Dnieper) river, particularly Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts (provinces). Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts are often also regarded as ...
, annexation of Crimea, the state of implementation of reforms in Ukraine, Ukrainian politics and economics, Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War, international policy, resonant events in Ukraine and abroad. In October 2015 the project started cooperation with the international volunteer group
Inform Napalm InformNapalm is a volunteer initiative to inform Ukrainian citizens and the foreign public about the Russo-Ukrainian War and the activities of the Russian special services as well as the militants of DPR, LPR, and Novorossiya. The team members ...
. The product of this collaboration was the infographics containing personal data of crews of Russian aviation, which bombards the Syrian city.


See also

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Inform Napalm InformNapalm is a volunteer initiative to inform Ukrainian citizens and the foreign public about the Russo-Ukrainian War and the activities of the Russian special services as well as the militants of DPR, LPR, and Novorossiya. The team members ...


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