The last government was an awkward team of rivals: an electoral alliance between Netanyahu's Likud and the largely Russian immigrant constituency represented by the pugnacious minister Avigdor Lieberman.
But Israel's West Bank settlers, religious Israelis and Russian immigrants, all key constituencies in his ruling coalition, have been markedly absent from the tent-cities.
But they are an internally combustible lot, especially given the mix of ultra-Orthodox and Russian immigrant parties whose constituencies are at opposite ends of the religious-secular divide.
When we first met, at a sushi restaurant near his office, he spoke about what he sees as the cowardice of liberal Russian businessmen — his natural constituency — who are too scared to stand up to government corruption.
But none of this appears to have had much impact on Mr Netanyahu's target constituency - the Russian immigrants who now constitute one in five voters.
Miss Starovoitova was now in the new Russian parliament, the Duma, representing a constituency in St Petersburg, formerly Leningrad, and a member of a party that called itself Democratic Russia.
It is not clear that Mr Putin wants Crimea re-gifted, but he has already signalled to a core constituency - those with Russian citizenship or with strong ethnic, language and cultural ties to the Motherland - that he has their back.
It's only natural: their constituencies will hear that Russians are using bitcoin to hack the election systems and take it at face value.
"Why are [the Russians] coming over our airspace within just a few miles of BAE Systems in Samlesbury in my constituency?" In April, two Russian aircraft were intercepted by RAF Typhoons near UK airspace in the latest of several similar incidents over the past year.
Metropolitan Jonah pursued a unified Orthodox identity among the various ethnic constituencies (e.g., Romanian, Albanian, and Russian) within the OCA and in other North American Orthodox denominations.
