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Initalize wine as win32

rm -fr ~/.wine
export WINEARCH=win32
export WINEPREFIX="/home/$USER/.wine"
winecfg

Run winecfg and set Windows version to 8 or 8.1.

Install IE8

winetricks ie8

Download skype

Download full MSI installer http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-msi

Install Skype

wine msiexec /i SkypeSetup.msi

After installation Skype.desktop will be created in ~/Desktop. Modify it to contain: 

/username:"username" /password:"password"