Russia oil
A worker checks a pressure gauge at an oil pumping station near the Rosneft company owned Suzunskoye oil field, north from the Russian Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, March 26, 2015.
  • Russia saw record oil sales last week as the nation ships more crude despite sanctions and promised cuts.
  • Oil exports rose to 4.13 million barrels a day in the last week of March, Bloomberg reported.
  • Still, experts say Russia's economy is at risk as it isolates itself from global markets.

Russia's oil sales notched a new record last week, despite western sanctions and promises of reductions in output.