Russian poet and Kremlin critic Lev Rubinstein dies aged 76

Key figure of Soviet underground literary scene and critic of Ukraine war dies days after being hit by car

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The Russian poet Lev Rubinstein, a leading figure in the Soviet underground literary scene who later protested against Vladimir Putin, has died days after being hit by a car, his daughter has said.

Rubinstein is considered as one of the founders of the Russian conceptualism, an avant-garde literary movement that mocked the official doctrine of socialist realism in the 1970s-80s.