MOSCOW, January 9 Poet and publicist Lev Rubinstein is in intensive care, reported the N.V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Medicine.
“The condition is extremely serious,” said the employee of the medical institution.
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According to media reports, the day before Rubinstein was hit by a car and suffered fractures and a traumatic brain injury.
As the capital's department of transport said, this happened on Obraztsova Street, in the area of house 9. The driver did not slow down in front of an unregulated pedestrian crossing and hit the poet who was crossing the street. According to preliminary data, the owner of the car has 19 episodes of traffic violations over the past year, the Department of Transport noted, adding that the police are looking into the circumstances of the incident.
Lev Rubinstein was born in Moscow in 1947. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State Humanitarian University named after M. A. Sholokhov. In the 1970s, the poet became one of the founders of Moscow conceptualism, inventing his own special genre — poems on cards.