From the article:
The Russian Institute of Biophysics at the Moscow State Research Centre has been experimenting with single shocks rather than a long series. Their aim is to have an effect that is "instant or nearly so", but that incapacitates the target for a prolonged period. In tests on animals they have shown that with the right sort of electrical pulse (frequency appears to be the key), a shock lasting less than a hundredth of a second causes an electroconvulsive reaction that knocks the animal out for 20 seconds. ...
Western researchers have not validated the safety and effectiveness of this type of shock, but there is known to be work on similar technology in the US. ...
Nemtyshkin's next project, the Leyden Gun, will deliver a short shock with lasting effects ... with a magazine of thirty rounds. The projectiles are simple needles rather than elaborate barbed darts, as they do not stick to the target but administer a single jolt from a high-voltage capacitor. ... The lightweight darts are effective out to 30 metres ... Longer range will make it harder to guarantee a hit, so the Leyden Gun can fire a burst of three shots with each trigger pull to improve the odds.
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Oh, sounds just wonderful. 3 hits with "a single jolt from a high-voltage capacitor" that "causes an electroconvulsive reaction that knocks" you out for 20 seconds, sounds much more non lethal and less dangerous to me! [/sarcasm]

Well, even slow firing tazers aren't all that safe.

Is it just me, or does this 'burst shock', that persists longer increase the danger involved?
I second this it sounds 'not so non-lethal anymore' motion.

True that, but while I don't want to imply that you must be new here, it has been used to measure almost anything, of almost any unit.
For example, see below.

Yeah, true that. But, don't want to imply that you must be new here, but it has been used here on Slashdot for measuring almost anything of any unit. See below.

Are YOU implying that it is YOU that is causing the Global Warming? I request that you kindly stop doing it, or people might start throwing rocks on you!

I thought it was "Libraries of Congress" as the universal slashdot omni-unit measure?

Yeah, but I wasn't talking about regenerative braking. AFAIK the trolleybuses (at least ones that we have here in Moscow), use active electrical braking, which is NOT regenerative. On other hand they have different movement context. They are tethered to the power lines, and they were not designed to reach speeds, that cars can reach.

Do electromobiles use ICE style brakes? The trolleybuses (that use electric engines and have been using them since 1882) just reverses engine revolution to stop (or somesuch). Same principle could be used in electric cars as well.

If they make a flying one, I'll even look into getting myself a driverspilots license!

Yeah, but you're yelling because they don't hear you on the other end, if you're not. They're on the rock concert and all that.

Yeah, true.
But let me illustrate some:
Some income reports for 2009, for State Duma deputies (including some from the Forbes richest list).
For comparison, the minimal monthly wage in Russia is 4330 rubles (thats around 96 Euros).
A lot of interesting comparisons from those numbers can be done.

“We have here a merger between a criminal element and the government power which is unacceptable and inadmissible in any civilized society,” Ponomarev wrote. I don't see how it is much different from most of the rest of the system. In Russia, mostly the corruption is not just in the system. It is more like THE system. Quite a bit of Russian news coverage (mostly internal) is all about that.

In Russia it is quite common occurence, that official in charge of something makes something worse.