OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's health minister will make a point about gay rights in Russia by attending the Sochi Paralympics with his husband, but the Dutch king and prime minister are under pressure to boycott the main Winter Games.
President Vladimir Putin has faced calls for a boycott of the Olympics, which open on Friday, over a law banning the spread of gay propaganda among minors which has threatened his attempts to use the Games to showcase Russia as a modern state.
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