br23 blog - minsk, belarus

Last week I was invited to a workshop in Ukraine, to teach a two-day class about internet, blogging, web publishing and CMS systems to a small class of Belarusian NGO activists. This sounded like a great opportunity! I would’ve loved to share whatever knowledge I have about WWW publishing with my fellow countrymen, and even get some money for that.

Unfortunately, I could not make it because of the Czech foreign police. They keep changing the rules, and they keep picking on small, irrelavant things, and they treat a foreigner like a stinky Untermensch.

First, they didn’t like my wife’s birth certificate. She had to request some documents via DHL. Then she spent several days going to the embassy and then to the foreign police, until they finally accepted her papers. Now they didn’t like our housing contract. And again, this vicious circle started (you need this paper, you need that paper notarized, etc., etc.), and we definetely won’t have Czech visas for another two weeks, at least.

So we are stuck here in Czech Republic since mid-January, not able to visit any other countries, because our Czech visas have expired and we are waiting for an extension.

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