Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Peter and Paul Fortress - and during a meeting with the honorary builder of Russia Vladimir Bendet, he said that he received the title of lieutenant as an artilleryman. The message that Putin was the commander of a lifting platoon of howitzer artillery contributed to users of social networks, because before that this information was not mentioned in his official biography.

Probably, Putin received the title at the military department when he studied at the Law Faculty of Leningrad State University-in the 1970s. On the former LSU website, it is mentioned that in 1970 students were prepared, among other things, according to the profile of the “platoon commander of divisional artillery”.
But the expression “Putin admitted that he ...”, which was based on RBC Twit , was still a meme.