diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9c3500c7..78da86ad 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ passlib==1.7.0
 django-iban==0.3.0
 requests
 phonenumbers
-django-countries
+django-countries==5.5
 django-localflavor
 amqp
 anyjson
diff --git a/scripts/containers/Dockerfile b/scripts/containers/Dockerfile
index 7769f13f..91c6ef91 100644
--- a/scripts/containers/Dockerfile
+++ b/scripts/containers/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM debian:latest
+FROM python:3.4
 
 RUN apt-get -y update && apt-get install -y curl sudo