Imprisoned

Imprisoned...
But calm, down. I am not in a jail. I am imprisoned in my own country.
To travel to Europe for instance, is almost impossible. Only exception is the UK but all others built barriers to Georgians, no matter who they are, for what reason they try to travel European countries, to receive visas is as complicated as to travel to the moon.
Let's take a case with Belgium - very nice country. If you're Georgian forget about invitations, officials or inofficials, forget about your friends or business partners. Or you have a choice to fly to Moscow and try to apply there. Of course you don't or can't do this. Or if you have any business, conference, speech, etc, in Austria - go to Kiev - this is truly much better - you don't need visa for Ukraine and there are even direct flights to Kiev, almost everyday. So you can go and apply there. Yes, it can be costly but who cares about additional 600 dollars - you can see Vienna then , good deal, indeed.
But, please don't think these are evil capitalistic nations who imposed so strong barriers for Georgians. Romania, which is of the same age of democracy, market, civilization, culture. But now they are the members of the union... oh, sorry the European (not Soviet) Union . What is the first benefit from the EU? Strong bureaucracy, of course. Now they are returnng to the old and not forgotten things, or to say shortly: you want to go to Romania? You need two letters of invitation: inofficial, from the organizers of the conference, or business partners, and what is most important, official - from the Imigration service of Romania. If you are lucky you can have both of them in 2 weeks, then you need to apply in the consulate in Georgia (God Bless, not in Moscow!), and after a week you can know if you are really lucky.
Yes, it is true many Georgians try to escape from Georgia - it is understandable, good jobs are not appearing and you need to survive. But this is not good argument for the embassies and coonsulates. Frenchs are afraid for instance that if they give you more days to stay in France than it is written in your invitation the French economy will collapse at once; this is also true, if you are given 5 days, you of course want to escape 6th day. The same is with Germans. You fly to the US and have 13 hours in the airport of Munich - why not to sleep on the sofas (ironic) there; but don't bother us with your silly requests of transit visas, say thanks, you can stay in the airport...

But what is our fault, please tell us...
At least there must be a just trial...