MOSCOW, April 29. /TASS/. Russia’s key partners, who buy its gas, have already agreed to pay for it in rubles, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Al-Arabiya TV on Friday.

"Most of Russia’s key partners, who buy its gas, have already shifted to this payment method [in rubles]," he noted.

According to the Russian top diplomat, the payment method suggested by Moscow changes nothing for the buyers. "If they refuse from paying in rubles, they, as a matter of fact, don’t want us to receive money for our commodity. This is their choice," he said. "If Poland and Bulgaria put their ideological ambitions before the interests of their people, the interests of their budgets, this is their choice.".