The Russian President showed off his skills with a classroom sketch on a white board at a middle school in the Siberian Kurgan.

Pupils were left giggling when the president revealed that he had drawn a cat’s behind for the class.

‘This is for you to remember’  he said, before carrying on with his sketch, the Huffington Post reports.

When a pupil asked what the drawing was, Putin replied: ‘It’s a cat – from the rear’, causing the class to collpase into giggles.

It comes days after the Russian President displayed a less flippant attitude to art, when police seized a painting of him wearing women’s underwear from a gallery, saying the satirical display had broken the law.