Ivan Filippov will sign copies of his books and talk with readers at the Prague Book Tower stand. His books will be on sale at the stand during the signing.

In August 2026, Filippov published his major non-fiction title Putin's Russia against Putin: The War According to Z,an attempt to portray Putin's regime through the accounts of supporters of the war against Ukraine, the so-called Z-bloggers. The book became one of the bestsellers at the Prague Book Tower Fair 2026.

Ivan Filippov is a Russian journalist and writer. Since 2005, he has worked as a news journalist for various independent and liberal media outlets. He has also written extensively about film and television, contributing to GQ, Esquire, Forbes, Forbes Life and the film website KinoPoisk.

In March 2022, following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Filippov moved to Tbilisi, Georgia. He runs a Telegram channel focused on unmasking Russian pro-war Z-propaganda.

His novel Mouse was published in late 2023. Set in Moscow in the early 2020s, it depicts a post-apocalyptic world. Due to censorship restrictions, the novel was published by Freedom Letters, one of the largest Russian-language publishing houses in exile. In the summer of 2024, distribution of the novel was effectively banned in Russia.

On 12 April 2024, the Russian Ministry of Justice designated Ivan Filippov a "foreign agent."