The university board of directors responded to the Bungehuis protest by initiating a lawsuit against the occupying student seeking a fine of €100,000 per student per day.
Bilateral tension remained high until summer 2008, when the two countries fought a five-day war over the territory of South Ossetia, which ended with Russian troops occupying parts of Georgia proper.
Students are occupying Maagdenhuis, the university's main administrative building, calling for a democrastisation of the institution.
In Amsterdam we started by occupying symbolic university buildings, organising public rallies and taking to the streets en masse.
Open Thu-Sun 2pm-6pm SinuAmsterdammsterdam's hip Oud-West neighbourhood and occupying a foreboding brick building that used to house an anatomical pathology laboratory, this project space offers art alongside a lot more.
Protesters, many of whom are armed, have been occupying an administration building in the regional capital, Donetsk, and a security service building in neighbouring Luhansk region for more than a week, and this weekend took over several buildings in Slaviansk and nearby cities.
Pro-Russian separatists occupying the regional government building in Ukraine's eastern city of Donetsk have vowed to take control of strategic infrastructure across the province they have declared an independent "people's republic".
"As soon as he received the money, he said the room I'd chosen to rent wasn't available any more, as the girl who was occupying it decided she wanted to stay on an extra year.
But this remains an election where the leaders – despite Abbott's attempts to distance himself from the issue – are seen as occupying starkly different positions.
Yet, amid this bleak political landscape, students have been occupying their universities.
Having reduced the Japanese nation to submission, the occupying Allied powers turned decommissioned Japanese vessels into whaling ships, and – with western observers aboard – were sent out to kill whales and use their meat to feed a starving nation.
