Russian poet and Kremlin critic Lev Rubinstein dies aged 76

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/14/russian-poet-and-kremlin-critic-lev-rubinstein-dies-aged-76

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.

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Diplomjodler@feddit.de · 23 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Totally an accident, of course.

KevinKostnier@lemmus.org · -4 pts · 2y
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Dremor@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Yet another innocent victim of the Putin regime.

logicbomb@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Just think how many young Russian poets have been sent off to Ukraine to die.

Dremor@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I pity them for not managing to dodge the draft. Or for believing in the Kremlin propaganda and willingly going to be slaughtered.

logicbomb@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Putin is willing to sacrifice Russia's future for his own current glory.

autotldr@lemmings.world · 7 pts · 2y

This is the best summary I could come up with:


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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medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

And here poor Gregor came to the party with a window. Windows are so last month! Silly Gregor!