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Tair Borubaev has been working as a coal miner for eight years in the Suluktu coalfield in southern Kyrgyzstan. It’s the oldest operational coalfield in Central Asia. He’s a qualified teacher, but says a teacher’s salary won’t feed his family, so he instead heads underground to work.