Georgia's parliament has overwhelmingly approved lifting its state of emergency tomorrow.
The move will allow people to meet in public and independent media to broadcast, although the main opposition broadcaster will remain closed because authorities revoked its licence after police raided its office last week.
The Georgian government accused the broadcaster of trying to incite a revolution.
The United States and European Union have told Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili to end the emergency rule he imposed last week after police crushed street protests with rubber bullets, teargas and baton charges.
Pro-Western Mr Saakashvili, who advocates membership of Nato and the European Union, faces the worst political crisis since a bloodless uprising propelled him to power in 2003.
The opposition is also largely pro-Western but accuses Mr Saakashvili of betraying the democratic principles of the country's "Rose Revolution".
Facing Western complaints that he was cracking down on democratic freedoms, Mr Saakashvili last week called a presidential election for January 5th to try to defuse the tension with the opposition.
He has accused Russia of fomenting unrest in Georgia, a charge Moscow has denied.