Forecast: There are no reasns to  suppose  Moscow will go to  "exchanges" for Karabakh by implementing the "Lavrov Plan" 

ArmInfo. To assume that Moscow will go to certain "exchanges" by implementing the so-called plan of Lavrov today there are no grounds. A similar opinion was  expressed by ArmInfo Russian analyst Sergei Markedonov.

"For Russia, the forced settlement of the multi-ethnic ethnopolitical  conflict, especially by forcing Armenia to cede the areas around the  former NKAR to push Azerbaijan to join the EAEC, is not an end in  itself, but it should be stressed that this document widely discussed  in the media is nowhere officially not published,"- he stressed.

According to analysts, not promising Moscow a win, such a step can  push Armenia away, can contribute to strengthening the pro-Western  vector, while at the same time, in no way stopping the  transport-energy partnership of Azerbaijan with the EU and the US.  Markedonov is convinced that the accelerated resolution of the  conflict behind the backs of its sides in the absence of real  compromises contains new risks for both Transcaucasia and Moscow's  positions in this region.

In this light, Markedonov considers indicative the absence of the  Karabakh issue at the Sochi talks Putin- Erdogan, noting that this  factor has strengthened a number of experts in the opinion, the  exclusion of Karabakh from the Russian-Turkish agenda.

On the eve of the November 13 meeting in Sochi with Vladimir Putin,  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced discussion of other  issues and the Karabakh issue at the meeting. Erdogan expressed the  supposition that if the Russian colleague is concentrated on this  issue, it "will be easily solved". The Turkish president voiced a  similar opinion on the eve of the trilateral summit of the presidents  of Russia, Iran and Turkey, held in Sochi on November 22.