"Yerkir": Threatened or not?

The newspaper writes, "Yesterday ecologist Yeghia Yenokyan told the journalists that Syunik Governor Surik Khachatryan had threatened another ecologist Mariam Sukhudyan and tried to cuff him. During the interview with "Yerkir" daily, Surik Khachatryan denied everything and assured, that such a thing had not happened. "Blackmail, blackmail, but in such a level?" he got surprised. "Do they have video? Let them show that I pushed or approached anybody." Then added, that he didn`t threaten Mariam Sukhudyan, even didn`t speak to her in such a voice. "Maybe I said, go, everything is going to be good, we are more concerned about our people than you. Such kind of conversations maybe occurred." To the question, about what the governor was speaking to the ecologists, the latter hesitated: "Do you take an exam?""