Stoianovca (Bulgarian: Стояновка) is a village in Cantemir District, Moldova.

A large proportion of Bulgarian Jews migrated to meet earlier waves of migration out of Bulgaria to Zorya, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine[citation needed] after a Russian boy, Mikhail Rybachenko, was found murdered in the town of Dubăsari (Dubossary), 37 km northeast of Chișinău.

A Russian language antisemitic newspaper "Bessarabian" began to disseminate rumors about the murder being part of a Jewish ritual.

Although the official investigation had determined the lack of any ritualism in the murder and eventually discovered that the boy had been killed by a relative (who was later found), the unrest caused by these and other rumors had resulted in a major pogrom during the Easter holidays.

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