German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he is in favour of granting asylum to Russian conscientious objectors. “I am in favour of offering these people protection,” Scholz told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung newspaper. “Of course, they have to go through a security check beforehand, so we know who we are letting into our country.” Previously, the German government had announced that it wanted to reach a common line on dealing with Russian draft dodgers at the European level. Since Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that hundreds of thousands would be drafted into the military, many Russian me…