Lev Rubinstein News Today

A Moscow court on Tuesday sentenced the driver involved in a road accident that resulted in the death of poet and writer Lev Rubinstein to a suspended prison term of one year and eight months.

Lev Rubinstein, the legend of the Moscow conceptualist movement, the inventor of a unique way of writing, died on January 14, 2024. His life seemed as endless as his long poems and ended just as abruptly as they did — mid-word, on an ellipsis.

The writer Ludmila Ulitskaya is the latest Russian author to be banned in Russia.

Masha Gessen writes about the Russian poet and essayist Lev Rubinstein, who has died at the age of seventy-six.

He helped found a defiant avant-garde movement fusing art and prose and was outspoken against the invasion of Ukraine. He died after being hit by a car in Moscow.

Here is the situation as the war enters its 691st day.

Poet, writer and social activist Lev Rubenstein, age 76, succumbed to injuries sustained when he was hit by a car in a Moscow intersection on Jan. 8. The poet's death was reported Sunday by his daughter, Maria, who wrote on LiveJournal, "My Papa, Lev Rubenstein, died today."  Social media and Russian independent media were flooded with memorials to Rubenstein.

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

Russia: Death of Lev Rubinstein, poet and dissident, critic of the Kremlin. He was hit on January 8, 2024 by a motorist while crossing a street in Moscow, then hospitalized in a serious condition. The poet had made no secret of his views hostile to the Putin regime, denouncing political repression, human rights violations, and participating in opposition demonstrators. He signed an open letter calling the Russian army's large-scale attack on Ukraine a "criminal war" and castigating t...

He supported the protests in Belarus.