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The Russian poet Lev Rubinstein, a key figure of the Soviet underground literary scene who later protested against President Vladimir Putin, has died days after being hit by a car, his daughter said.
Rubinstein is considered as one of the founders of the Russian conceptualist movement, a literary “avant-garde” that mocked the official doctrine of socialist realism in the 1970s-80s.
“My dad, Lev Rubinstein, died today,” his daughter Maria wrote on a LiveJournal blog picked up by Russian media.
The poet had created his own genre, between poetry and theatre, by writing short sentences on perforated cards and reading the “note-card poems” on stage.
Rubinstein was openly hostile to Putin’s government and protested regularly against the Kremlin’s intensifying repression and human rights violations.
After Putin launched his full-scale assault on Ukraine, Rubinstein, along with other renowned writers, signed an open letter denouncing a “criminal war” and the Kremlin’s “lies”.
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