Pavel Yakubovich (Russian: Павел Изотович Якубович, born September 23, 1946, in Unecha or Starodub, Russia) is a Belarusian journalist and politician.
After graduating from school he worked as a prison ward and construction worker, and later did his military service in the Soviet Internal Troops.
In 2011, after the wave of repressions that followed the 2010 presidential election, Pavel Yakubovich and several other top managers and employees of major state media became subject to an EU travel ban and asset freeze as part of a sanctions list of 208 individuals responsible for political repressions, electoral fraud and propaganda in Belarus.
According to the EU Council's decision,[5] Pavel Yakubovich was "one of the most vocal and influential members of the state propaganda machine in the printed press.
He has supported and justified the repression of the democratic opposition and of civil society, which are systematically highlighted in a negative and derogatory way using falsified information.