Hello, perhaps you can help:
> My family are now at a cottage in a village outside Moscow, where they
> are staying for weeks due to the hot weather. The telephone number
> there contains less than the usual number of digits (6 instead of
> seven). For some reasons calls cannot get there from North America,
> although they can call here. The problem seems to be with the US, as
> I don't even get a Russian dial tone, but a North American one
> followed by an English-language message saying that there is no such
> number and to try again.
> Is there any trick to dialing such numbers and getting through?
First thing I would try: dial an extra digit :-) (just an arbitrary one)
Kind regards,
Gerard Bok