sentences:  Konstantin Kosachev, the Chairman of the International Affairs Committee in the State Duma, in response stated that Estonia and the European Parliament had demanded investigations into the 2005 attacks on a Mari activist, and had used the attack as evidence of discrimination of the Mari people in Russia, yet ignored calls for investigations on attacks on ethnic Russians, which included the murder of one, in the wake of the Bronze Soldier controversy.Kosachev's speech led Ilves and the rest of the Estonian delegation to leave the conference hall in protest.Ilves later stated that "to read into the speech anything requires a hyperactive and distorted imagination".