To call Russia from the U.S., just follow these dialing instructions: 1  First dial 011, the U.S. exit code. 2  Next dial 7, the country code for Russia. 3  Then dial the 3-to 5-digit area code (see sample calling code list below), followed by the 5- to 7-digit phone number.
Lester Holt is the First African-American to Solo Anchor a Network Weekday Nightly Newscast- Lester Don Holt was born on March 8, 1959. He is an American journalist and musician. He anchors the weekday of âNBC Nightlyâ News and the weekend of âNBC's Todayâ also the anchor for Dateline NBC
Early life [edit]. Lester was born in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire in Southern England, to actress Rita Keene Lester and actor and producer Michael Lester (originally Michael Boris Letzer).His father was Jewish and his mother Anglican.ester was a close friend of Michael Jackson. In August 2009, after Jackson's death, Lester gave an interview to the British tabloid newspaper News of the World in which he claimed that he could be the biological father of Paris Katherine Jackson, the late singer's daughter.