Dear, Neo! I'm happy that you have found the right woman and expecting her coming. I understood completely the topic of the post and I know exactly that if those two foreign men (the husbands of my friends) had waited for their ladies to come at their own expenes, they would have never met and created a family.
You say: "Woman in eastern Europe are very equal - talking about rights, income, jobs, etc." They are just TALKING (!) You right that "equality is only set by law" but in reality all the laws that can defend women here STAY ON PAPER AND DO NOT WORK (!)
Well, I'm an indepedent person, have the opportunity to travel but I'm a little indecisive in character and this fact can prevent me from going to visit a man in his country. So if the man is brave anough to come here and spend time and money on the trip, I'd be very happy to meet him and then can go to visit him.