North West Oil Group, Inc. (NWOL)

[ekythump]

That's right. I don't know if Putin personally gave the individual the oil fields, but it was part of a privatization program in Russia.

The restricted shares won't be sold. It's not a question of 'probably not' and 'most likey not", they will not sell the shares.

This is because these restricted shares belong to the entity that enlisted Monimpex (parkin, makarov, etc.) to go public in the first place.

They can't legally have access to U.S./North American markets unless they do it in that way--- by merging into a "shell company" and maintaining control by having the majority shares.