The ratio of open orders of the Tashkent mayor Shavkat Umurzakov fell from 53% to 33%. This follows from the data of the E-Qaror portal.
From January to August 18 of this year, the capital's mayor signed 803 orders. Of these, 264 (32.9%) were published in the public domain, 539 (67.1%) were closed, including 371 with the "For Official Use Only" (FOU) stamp.
For comparison, during the same period in 2024, 763 orders of the mayor’s office were made, of which 405 (53.1%) were open and 358 (46.9%) were closed, including 277 with the FOU stamp.
Thus, the total number of orders increased by 5.2% (+40 documents), and the ratio of closed ones increased from 46.9% to 67.1%.
Whereas, the council of People's Deputies of the capital increased transparency. From January to mid-August 2025, it made 172 orders, including 135 open and 37 closed. A year earlier, 130 orders were made during the same period - 110 open and 20 closed. The number of documents increased by almost a third, while the level of openness remained high - 78% against 85% in 2024.
In the period from January to August 18, 2022, when Jahongir Artykhodjaev was the Tashkent mayor, the capital's mayor’s office made 1,040 orders, of which 607 (58%) were published in the public domain and 433 were closed. The Council of People's Deputies made 225 orders during the same period, of which 172 (76.4%) were open and 53 (23.6%) were closed.
Thus, the Tashkent Mayor’s office began to restrict access to its orders more often.
The Ministry of Justice noted that mayors can decide which documents to publish in the public domain and which not. According to the law, mayor’s offices in some cases make orders and orders containing information, the use of which is limited (information on defense, security, personal data, guardianship and trusteeship, etc.).
However, in November 2022, the mayor’s office published and then hid the orders of the council on the income and expenditure of the city budget for the first half of the year. Later, the Ministry of Justice restored access to documents.
