A preliminary hearing will take place on 18 September following claims from Ms Samutsevich that Ms Volkova posted unfriendly comments about her on social networks while proceedings were going on against the three women. Ms Samutsevich has already complained to the Bar Association's board in Moscow, according to the Russian Legal Information Agency. 

Volkova told the Bar Association that she had represented Ms Samutsevich for free. Ms Samutsevich was released in October when her sentence was suspended based on her new lawyer's argument that she had been taken by security guards before she had reached the altar in Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral where the offences are said to have taken place.