School administrators in Siberia have threatened to expel a 4th-grade student for wearing a man bun styled after his hero, the Swedish football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic, in an incident that has sparked an outcry across Russia.
The hair-raising controversy gained nationwide attention this week after the 10-year-old aspiring football player was reprimanded for coming to class with faded sideburns and a long, bleach-blond top. Regional investigators have launched an inspection into last Thursday's incident, saying they plan to determine whether school officials in the Krasnoyarsk region town of Sosnovoborsk abused their authority.
School officials reportedly compared the boy's man bun to a "Hitler youth" cut and claimed the style is popular among "Western sexual minorities".
Russian social media users have launched a campaign asking Ibrahimovic to make a statement in support of the schoolkid.