diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ecbc99ef..cd52bbfe 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ install_requires = [
     'unidecode',
     'jsonschema',
     'PasteDeploy',
-    'requests',
+    'requests>=2.6.0',
     'pyld',
     # This is optional:
     # 'translitcodec',