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How a Chicago-area journalist helped prove an unassuming wristwatch once belonged to China’s last emperor

Por: Chicago Sun Times Nation May 17, 2023

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Russell Working had never spoken to the 83-year-old translator he was about to meet for the first time because the old man, fearing a KGB tap, had no phone.What Working, an Oak Park-based freelance journalist, found was a man as colorful as his Soviet-era apartment tower was drab.Georgy Permyakov thumped his stomach to show he hadn’t lost all of the brawn of his boxing days. He bragged that he always slept on his balcony — even in winter.... + full article



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