Russian dissident poet Rubinstein dead at 76

Poet Lev Rubinstein, a key figure of the Soviet underground literary scene, has died days after being hit by a car, his daughter said on Jan 14. Photo: AFP

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 on Sunday.

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-1980s.