Sochi Winter Olympics: Who Is Going To The Opening Ceremony? -- Shaun Walker, The Guardian
China's Xi Jinping and Ukraine's Viktor Yanukovych will attend but many in west have been put off by Russia's anti-gay laws
There will be no Barack Obama, no David Cameron and no Angela Merkel in the stadium when the Winter Olympics open in Sochi on Friday, but Vladimir Putin will at least be able to enjoy the company of China's president, Xi Jinping, Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as well as the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon.
The Kremlin hoped to see dozens of world leaders at the opening ceremony, but the Winter Olympics is not regarded as a "must attend" event, and many in the west have been put off by controversy in the buildup to the Games, notably the passing of a new law banning "gay propaganda".
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