The director of Moscow School No. 1329 threatened to expel Mikhail Samin after the head of the school was summoned twice to the Investigative Committee because of the student's participation in anti-corruption rallies on March 26. about it writes TJournal . Among other things, the seventeen-year-old Samin is the pastor of the Russian Pastafarian Church (Sama Pasta IV).
On his VKontakte page, Samin wrote that the principal had issued an ultimatum: either the student would not be able to attend the two-day PHDays information security conference (May 23–24), or the parents must take his documents from school.
According to the charter of the school, the student cannot miss classes after the application of measures of educational work. If Mikhail Samin misses a lesson, the director has the right to expel him, the newspaper writes.
Significantly, Samin and several other students from the school were invited to attend the conference after they placed second in the school's CTF Information Security Olympiad.