(Reuters) - When President Vladimir Putin opens the winter Paralympic Games in the Russian resort of Sochi on Friday he will be short of foreign dignitaries to greet.
Plans to send government ministers and members of royal families have been cancelled by numerous countries in the wake of a Russian incursion into the Crimea region of Ukraine.
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