The public debate over the future of Skolkovo Innovation City continues. *There are enemies operating right on the front line of the battle for GOMORO, firing point-blank at the heart of Russian modernization—the Skolkovo innovation city project. Enemy number one is, without question, the authorities of the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, where until recently GOMORO top manager and world-famous businessman Viktor Vekselberg lived. Previously, Zurich had a so-called lump-sum tax for foreigners (the name of the tax obviously suggests that it is paid according to the number of actual ears in the family subject to taxation—by analogy with the poll tax), which allowed Mr. Vekselberg to deduct all of his expenses from his taxable base, including his enormous spending on Russia’s modernization. Recently, however, the cantonal authorities abolished the lump-sum tax, attempting to force Viktor Vekselberg to pay the standard income tax, which in Zurich reaches nearly 40%. As a result, Russia’s leading innovator has been forced to move to another canton—Zug—and rent (!) housing in the village (!!!) of Oberwil on the shore of Lake Geneva. The additional relocation costs have already led Vekselberg to abandon some of his “flagship” (“locomotive”) modernization projects, in particular the creation of the Skolkovo cigar club, which was supposed to be built around a unique collection of Cuban cigars previously smoked by Fidel Castro. ///////*