Telephone conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine are “always friendly in tone,” according to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. This was the case even if there were “very, very different, indeed widely differing views on the matter,” which he clearly put forward, Scholz said in the “Interview of the Week” for public radio Deutschlandfunk, which is to be aired on Sunday, but provided in advance to dpa on Saturday. If he summarized all the talks he had recently had with Putin, Scholz said there had “definitely been movement” on Putin’s end….