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My name is Dmitry German and I came from Barnaul, which is the central city of Altai province of Russia. My surname clearly indicates my roots, and indeed my father’s ancestors were those of many Germans who moved to Russian Empire in search of better life in the second half of XVIII century from Germany after Sophie Auguste Friederike von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg got married with Peter III and soon took the Russian throne and became Ekaterina II (the Great). Initially settled in Low Volga region, “Russian Germans” undergone some mass transmigrations in the first half of XX century and finally considerable part of them were resettled in Altai region. My mother’s ancestors are Russians and Ukraines evacuated from European part of USSR during the nazis attack to that area. So I combine quite different lines which is quite typical for Russia and the whole former USSR.

"Czech democracy is not fully consolidated," says Geoffrey Pridham, professor of European Politics at Bristol University, who visited in September Faculty of social sciences and its conference called 20 years of Czech democracy.

Read about Nagender´s experience from PhD study at Masaryk University.

The Czech legal system does not keep pace with the development of the cyberspace, and we are thus facing the challenge of applying the existing criminal-law regulations to the field. These issues were agreed on by the participants of the Law and Cyberspace workshop held at Masaryk University's Faculty of Law. Opportunities brought by the cyberspace are often being misused for major criminal activities such as distribution of child pornography, while the police often lack sufficient methods of preventing these problems.

A team of information scientists from Masaryk University has launched a new system for exposing plagiarism in semester papers. The new...

The CEPIA Technologies company, which develops special cryptographical hardware, has become a strategic partner of the Faculty of...

Climatologist Kamil Láska and plant physiologist Miloš Barták from the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University left...

On 30 May more than two thousand alumni of all generations came to Brno from all over the world to see how their alma mater &ndash...

A new student project at the Institute of Information and Library Studies of Faculty of Arts tries to show that reading is sexy, cool and trendy. Guerrilla Readers comprises seven students. Six women and one man will try to bring young people back to reading. They would like to do this by so-called guerrilla marketing – in unusual, suprising and amusing way.

Integration of environmental information from the whole of Europe – this was the motto of a conference called Towards eEnvironment, held in Prague in March 2009 by Masaryk University. Almost four hundred specialists from all over the world discussed a shared information system, which will support not only progressive changes in the field of environmental information but will also develop effective communication within the European Community.

Masaryk University and Brno University of Technology have agreed on the next step in the Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC) project. The main aim of the project is to create excellent conditions for the development of biotechnology, biomedicine, advanced materials and technology. The general agreement – signed by the Rectors of both universities on 3 March 2009 – makes Masaryk University the main recipient of a grant and establishes equal partnership between Masaryk University and Brno University of Technology in project preparation.

A new permanent exhibition devoted to the world-famous "father of genetics" Gregor Johann Mendel, was opened by the Mendel Museum of Masaryk University in the middle of February 2009 in the grounds of the Abbey of the Order of St. Augustine in Brno, where Mendel - scientist and monk - made his epoch-making discoveries. This modern exhibition intends in particular to attract children and young people to Mendel's legacy.