diff --git a/spacy/tests/conftest.py b/spacy/tests/conftest.py
index 718a8265c..de0facf49 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/conftest.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import pytest
 
 # These languages get run through generic tokenizer tests
 LANGUAGES = [English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Dutch,
-             Swedish, Hungarian, Finnish, Bengali, Norwegian, Russian]
+             Swedish, Hungarian, Finnish, Bengali, Norwegian]
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(params=LANGUAGES)