Until the Rammstein site says otherwise I choose to assume the best, but it remains to be seen whether Belarus will get their Rammstein show on March 7. Deutsche Welle has reported on this (thanks Rammchick), amongst others, and while they provide some insight into the Belarusian Government there is no concrete news either way yet, and all the news on this issue is the same.
Whether or not Rammstein has the power to influence a population as strongly as the Morality Council seems to think can't be questioned. They absolutely do not. While I am a fan of the band I do not consider them to have so much power that they could drive an otherwise orderly society into sexual or social violence with their tongue-in-cheek innuendo.
To go so far as to declare Rammstein an enemy of the Belarusian state for this reason is a very bad joke. I would be more inclined to dub such a politically moderate, satirical band the antithesis of the politics that hold sway there, but certainly not a threat to the nation's morality. I'm sure any entity so vocal in their lyrics about humanity's flaws, narrowness, and political jack-booting is the bane of 'Europe's Last Dictatorship', but even in that context they do not have the ability to have such a serious affect on a population as this debacle implies.
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