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Russian poet Lev Rubinstein, a dissident intellectual during the Soviet period and highly critical of the current president, died on Sunday at 76, just days after being run over in Moscow. His daughter announced it. “My father, Lev Rubinstein, is dead,” Maria Rubinstein wrote on her Live Journal blog, quoted by Russian media. On January 8, the poet was hit by a car while crossing a street in the capital and was hospitalized in very serious conditions. According to the Moscow Department of Transport, the owner of the car had been involved in 19 traffic violations in the last 12 months. Rubinstein, born in 1947 in Moscow, studied as a librarian and was one of the figures of the Soviet underground literary scene of the 1970s and 1980s. He is considered one of the founders of the “conceptualist” movement, which mocked the official doctrine of socialist realism. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, his notoriety grew, he published with several renowned publishers and worked as a journalist, without hiding his criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In March 2022, together with other Russian writers, he signed an open letter calling the Russian army’s offensive in Ukraine a “criminal war” and criticizing the Kremlin’s “lies”.