President-Elect Dmitry Medvedev visited the Dubna Institute for Nuclear Research yesterday:
It has all the aesthetics of Russian pistols 
I wonder what that is.
I first saw the image here. Confirmed it was not a fake here.
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What the heck is that thing?…
Now what sort of crazy weapon have the Rooskies cooked up?……
It looks like a “russian cigarette lighter”
Looks like an x-ray gun used for inspecting welds.
It’s a wave gun for riot control.