[6] For openly opposing Alexander Lukashenko and supporting Maria Kalesnikava Filipenko can be prosecuted - official press (Sovetskaya Belorussiya – Belarus' Segodnya) mentions quotes of the Criminal Code (articles up to 12 years in prison) that can be applied to Filipenko.

[7][8] Filipenko was born in Minsk into a mixed Russian-Ukrainian-Belarusian family,[9] studied in an arts lyceum, and got his BSc (2007) and MSc (2009) in literature in Saint-Petersburg University.

[9] In 2023 Ukrainian director Sasha Denysova staged Filipenko's play "Tikhari" in the Lithuanian Old Theatre of Vilnius with independent Belarusian actors, who had to leave Belarus due to political repressions.

[12] In 2024 Maxim Didenko brought Filipenko's novel to stage in Berlin; "Cremulator" premiered with praiseful reviews.

In 2021 he wrote an open letter to the president of International Ice Hockey Federation René Fasel against holding an International Hockey Championship in Belarus, that was published by several European newspapers, including German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung[32] and Süddeutsche Zeitung,[33] Swedish Aftonbladet,[34] and Polish Gazeta Wyborcza.