TODAY: Medvedev warns against Nato expansion; his campaign workers are “strongly allied with Putin”; Gorbachev says US missile defense is aimed against Russia. Russian polar bears to be protected. National Bolshevik activists sentenced. In an interview with the Financial Times, Dmitry Medvedev has warned that granting Nato membership to the former Soviet republics of Ukraine and Georgia could threaten European security. The interview has received the majority of today’s press attention, with other journalists focusing on the Nato question, and Medvedev’s comments on the British Council, indicating he is “open to repairing relations with Britain.” Most of the people who worked on Medvedev’s campaign are “more strongly allied with Putin than with the new president.” In an interview on Czech public television, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev sais that a proposed missile defense system Washington wants to place in eastern Europe is aimed against Russia and China. “Do you believe that that the whole thing is meant against Iran? That’s complete nonsense,” he said.