Resident of Krasnodar krai. On 2 April 2024 Valery was detained after a search. On 4 April, the court sent him to custody on charges of participation in the activities of an extremist organisation due to his involvement in the Jehovah's Witnesses community. Representatives of this community are prosecuted under extremist articles solely for religious activities: meetings, joint worship services, attraction of new supporters. On 3 July 2024, Bailo was sentenced to two and a half years in a general regime colony. He died on 21 March 2025 in a pre-trial detention centre.