Russian poet and Kremlin critic Lev Rubinstein dies aged 76

Dissident was openly hostile to Vladimir Putin and protested against Kremlin’s human rights violations

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.