diff --git a/run_ci_tests.sh b/run_ci_tests.sh
index 712ac1b..e91d3e0 100755
--- a/run_ci_tests.sh
+++ b/run_ci_tests.sh
@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ echo "Last commits:"
 git log -2
 fi
 
-pip install --upgrade tox trollius
+# Apparently newer requests has strong feeling about idna:
+# https://github.com/requests/requests/commit/991e8b76b7a9d21f698b24fa
+pip install --upgrade tox trollius idna<2.8
 pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall pygments chardet
 pip3 install "pygit2 <= `rpm -q libgit2 --queryformat='%{version}'`"
 parallel -v ::: \