Philippine authorities today announced the evacuation of more than 100,000 people due to the approach of Typhoon Nesat, which is expected to reach the archipelago by tomorrow morning. It is reported by Interfax. At the moment, schools are closed in the capital Manila and neighboring provinces, air and railway communications are suspended. According to meteorologists, the speed of wind gusts in the range of the typhoon reaches 150 kilometers per hour.

The Minister of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation Yuri Trutnev signed an order to dismiss the deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor Sergey Morgunov, told Interfax . a source in Rosprirodnadzor He noted that, at the personal request of Morgunov, he was transferred to the post of assistant to the head of the department, Vladimir Kirillov, and he was dismissed from the post of deputy head on September 23.

On May 28, at a gay parade, Lisunov hit a special. correspondent of the "New" Elena Kostyuchenko, on the head, which was witnessed by hundreds of people around. This was recorded by photo and video equipment.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev gave Deputy Prime Minister, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin until the end of Monday to resolve the issue of his resignation, Interfax reports . "You will need to decide very quickly and give me an answer today," Medvedev said during a meeting of the presidential commission on modernization in Dimitrovgrad. Kudrin himself said that he intends to discuss this issue with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

The Italian oil company has resumed oil production at the Abu Attifel field, 300 kilometers south of Benghazi, Interfax reports . The work of the first 15 wells at the field was resumed. Currently, the production level is about 31.9 thousand barrels per day. In the coming days, other wells will be launched to reach the required volumes to fill the oil pipeline connecting the field with the Zuetina terminal.

The international rating agency Standard & Poor's on Monday downgraded the long-term sovereign rating of Belarus by one notch: to "B-" from "B", the agency said. The rating was withdrawn from the list for a possible downgrade, but the outlook for it remained “negative,” RIA Novosti reports .

Members of a Yemeni tribe opposed to the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh attacked a military base north of the country's capital Sana'a and killed General Abdullah al-Kulaibi, and also took hostage 30 military loyal to the president. This was reported today by the Arab TV channel Al Arabiya with reference to the Minister of Defense of the country. In addition, according to some reports, four of the attackers were killed.

The criminal case against Roman Lisunov, who beat up Novaya correspondent Elena Kostyuchenko at a gay pride parade in Moscow, has been dismissed for lack of corpus delicti. This is stated in the message of the human rights association "Agora". The police recognized the fact of the attack on the journalist committed by Lisunov “out of hooligan motives”, but stopped his criminal offense due to the fact that forensic experts could not establish the degree of harm caused to Kostyuchenko’s health.

In Udmurtia, a bus and a truck collided, eight people were injured, Interfax reports today , citing the press service of the UGIBDD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Udmurtia. The accident happened on the eve late in the evening on the 67th kilometer of the Elabuga-Perm highway. The Hyundai bus crashed into a KamAZ that was driving in front of it and slid into a ditch.

Next year, the period for issuing a passport may be reduced from 30 to two or three days, RIA Novosti reports . This statement was made by the head of the Federal Migration Service, Konstantin Romodanovsky, at a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. According to him, this will be possible thanks to the Electronic Government system, which should be fully operational next year.

A monument to Pope John Paul II will be opened on September 30 in the courtyard of the Library for Foreign Literature in Moscow, Interfax was told at the Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God. “It is no secret that dad loved Russia very much and hoped to visit it, which was not destined to come true during his earthly life.

Firefighters are evacuating students from an art school in western Moscow because of a fire that broke out in an educational institution during the day, told RIA Novosti a source in the law enforcement agencies of the capital . According to him, the fire occurred in the basement of the four-story building of the Alyabyev School of Arts, located on Bolshaya Filevskaya Street, house 6. According to the source, there were no casualties in the fire. The fire area is set.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg today at a meeting granted the prosecutor's request for a psychiatric examination of former police warrant officer Vadim Boyko, known by the nickname Zhemchuzhny, Interfax reports . The court decided to appoint an outpatient psychiatric examination, which should answer the questions whether Boyko was fully sane, and also how sane he was at the time of the alleged crime.

Today, a bill was submitted to the State Duma that allows the constituent entities of Russia to establish additional holidays in accordance with their traditions, ITAR-TASS reports . The authors of the document were the deputies of the United Russia faction: the head of the committee on civil, criminal, arbitration and procedural legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov and the first vice-speaker Oleg Morozov.

The action was held for the fourth time - the previous voting was held by the movement on March 26, June 12 and August 21. The central point for voting this time was organized at the monument to Griboyedov on Chistye Prudy, and mobile "polling stations" - throughout Moscow and in many cities of Russia.