diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 0f26145e7..14272aeb1 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -16,10 +16,11 @@ Features added
 Bugs fixed
 ----------
 
+* #5037: LaTeX ``\sphinxupquote{}`` breaks in Russian
+* sphinx.testing uses deprecated pytest API; ``Node.get_marker(name)``
 * #5016: ``character_level_inline_markup`` setting is not initialized for
   combination of non reST source parsers (ex. recommonmark) and docutils-0.13
 
-
 Testing
 --------
 
diff --git a/sphinx/testing/fixtures.py b/sphinx/testing/fixtures.py
index be0037b70..741dbb353 100644
--- a/sphinx/testing/fixtures.py
+++ b/sphinx/testing/fixtures.py
@@ -39,7 +39,10 @@ def app_params(request, test_params, shared_result, sphinx_test_tempdir, rootdir
 
     # ##### process pytest.mark.sphinx
 
-    markers = request.node.get_marker("sphinx")
+    if hasattr(request.node, 'iter_markers'):  # pytest-3.6.0 or newer
+        markers = request.node.iter_markers("sphinx")
+    else:
+        markers = request.node.get_marker("sphinx")
     pargs = {}
     kwargs = {}  # type: Dict[str, str]
 
@@ -86,7 +89,10 @@ def test_params(request):
        have same 'shared_result' value.
        **NOTE**: You can not specify shared_result and srcdir in same time.
     """
-    env = request.node.get_marker('test_params')
+    if hasattr(request.node, 'get_closest_marker'):  # pytest-3.6.0 or newer
+        env = request.node.get_closest_marker('test_params')
+    else:
+        env = request.node.get_marker('test_params')
     kwargs = env.kwargs if env else {}
     result = {
         'shared_result': None,
diff --git a/sphinx/writers/latex.py b/sphinx/writers/latex.py
index bd88ca842..0e5462ea2 100644
--- a/sphinx/writers/latex.py
+++ b/sphinx/writers/latex.py
@@ -200,15 +200,10 @@ class ExtBabel(Babel):
 
     def get_shorthandoff(self):
         # type: () -> unicode
-        shortlang = self.language.split('_')[0]
-        if shortlang in ('de', 'ngerman', 'sl', 'slovene', 'pt', 'portuges',
-                         'es', 'spanish', 'nl', 'dutch', 'pl', 'polish', 'it',
-                         'italian', 'pt-BR', 'brazil'):
-            return '\\ifnum\\catcode`\\"=\\active\\shorthandoff{"}\\fi'
-        elif shortlang in ('tr', 'turkish'):
-            # memo: if ever Sphinx starts supporting 'Latin', do as for Turkish
-            return '\\ifnum\\catcode`\\=\\string=\\active\\shorthandoff{=}\\fi'
-        return ''
+        return ('\\ifdefined\\shorthandoff\n'
+                '  \\ifnum\\catcode`\\=\\string=\\active\\shorthandoff{=}\\fi\n'
+                '  \\ifnum\\catcode`\\"=\\active\\shorthandoff{"}\\fi\n'
+                '\\fi')
 
     def uses_cyrillic(self):
         # type: () -> bool
@@ -568,6 +563,7 @@ class LaTeXTranslator(nodes.NodeVisitor):
                     self.elements['classoptions'] = ',dvipdfmx'
                     # disable babel which has not publishing quality in Japanese
                     self.elements['babel'] = ''
+                    self.elements['shorthandoff'] = ''
                     self.elements['multilingual'] = ''
                     # disable fncychap in Japanese documents
                     self.elements['fncychap'] = ''
diff --git a/tests/test_build_latex.py b/tests/test_build_latex.py
index 96ae14089..68704d9a3 100644
--- a/tests/test_build_latex.py
+++ b/tests/test_build_latex.py
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ def test_babel_with_language_ru(app, status, warning):
     assert '\\addto\\captionsrussian{\\renewcommand{\\tablename}{Table.}}\n' in result
     assert (u'\\addto\\extrasrussian{\\def\\pageautorefname'
             u'{\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0446\u0430}}\n' in result)
-    assert '\\shorthandoff' not in result
+    assert '\\shorthandoff' in result
 
 
 @pytest.mark.sphinx(
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ def test_babel_with_unknown_language(app, status, warning):
     assert '\\addto\\captionsenglish{\\renewcommand{\\figurename}{Fig.}}\n' in result
     assert '\\addto\\captionsenglish{\\renewcommand{\\tablename}{Table.}}\n' in result
     assert '\\addto\\extrasenglish{\\def\\pageautorefname{page}}\n' in result
-    assert '\\shorthandoff' not in result
+    assert '\\shorthandoff' in result
 
     assert "WARNING: no Babel option known for language 'unknown'" in warning.getvalue()
 
diff --git a/tests/test_ext_apidoc.py b/tests/test_ext_apidoc.py
index d3d61d1e0..8c81a6e12 100644
--- a/tests/test_ext_apidoc.py
+++ b/tests/test_ext_apidoc.py
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ def apidoc(rootdir, tempdir, apidoc_params):
 
 @pytest.fixture
 def apidoc_params(request):
-    markers = request.node.get_marker("apidoc")
+    if hasattr(request.node, 'iter_markers'):  # pytest-3.6.0 or newer
+        markers = request.node.iter_markers("apidoc")
+    else:
+        markers = request.node.get_marker("apidoc")
     pargs = {}
     kwargs = {}
 
diff --git a/tests/test_setup_command.py b/tests/test_setup_command.py
index facb8879d..cd1f89c0c 100644
--- a/tests/test_setup_command.py
+++ b/tests/test_setup_command.py
@@ -27,7 +27,10 @@ def setup_command(request, tempdir, rootdir):
     Run `setup.py build_sphinx` with args and kwargs,
     pass it to the test and clean up properly.
     """
-    marker = request.node.get_marker('setup_command')
+    if hasattr(request.node, 'get_closest_marker'):  # pytest-3.6.0 or newer
+        marker = request.node.get_closest_marker('setup_command')
+    else:
+        marker = request.node.get_marker('setup_command')
     args = marker.args if marker else []
 
     pkgrootdir = tempdir / 'test-setup'