TODAY: Deportation ruling upheld for U.S. NGO worker; Udaltsov ends hunger strike; activists unmask owners of fake diplomas; Foreign Ministry makes most of U.S. problems in Ferguson.  Putin to meet with Poroshenko next week; military exercises in Astrakhan; Shukhov Tower reprieve.

U.S. citizen and NGO consultant Jennifer Gaspar faces deportation after a St. Petersburg court upheld a verdict from the migration authorities which labelled her a threat to national security; the case, critics say, is motivated by her husband’s work as a human rights lawyer.  Imprisoned opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov has ended his nearly one-month hunger-strike, amid growing concerns for his health.  The Moscow Times reports on the work of Dissernet, an organisation which exposes high-ranking degree holders who bought their dissertations on the black market.  Migrant laborers in Moscow are gearing up for a mega rally this fall to call for an end to their ‘slavery‘.   The Russian Foreign Ministry’s human rights, democracy and rule of law commissioner, Konstantin Dolgov, has used the troubles in Ferguson, Missouri to indicate that the U.S. should tend to its own affairs rather than intervening in the ‘internal affairs of other countries‘.