LJ user a_volosevich suggests [1] [ru] that the Latinization reform that has been underway in Uzbekistan over the last two decades is close to failure:
[Over the almost twenty years since Uzbekistan switched to Latin script] it has become clear that the new script in itself does not create the knowledge of foreign languages… Besides, the Russian language has proven to be more in demand [than Latinized Uzbek].
The blogger suggests that this might be a warning call to Kazakhstan, which is also abandoning [2] Cyrillic script in favor of the Latin alphabet.