INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Poet, writer and social activist Lev Rubenstein, age 76, was struck by a car in a Moscow intersection on Monday and is now in Sklifosovsky
It was reported by his friend, poet and journalist Igor Irtenyev, who said Rubenstein had suffered broken bones and is in critical condition
TV Rain reported that he suffered a traumatic brain injury
After surgery he was put in a medically induced coma.Russian-language social media has been flooded by the news and requests to pray for his
recovery.Rubenstein was born and grew up in Moscow, where he studied language and literature at Moscow State University and then worked as a
In the 1970s and 1980s he was part of the underground literary scene in Moscow and is considered one of the founders of Moscow Conceptualism
His first works were published in the Soviet Union only in the late 1980s.In the 1990s he began to write essays and other materials for the
press, including Kommersant, the journal Itogi, and many other periodicals
He has published dozens of books and in 1999 was awarded the Andrei Bely Prize
important social activist who has taken part in demonstrations against the persecution of writers and artists, against repressions in Russia
and Belarus, and against the war in Ukraine."Any war is terrible, and not only because wars are easy to begin and very hard to stop
War is terrible not only because people are killed and cities destroyed
Especially curiosity about what is different, incomprehensible and new
