Vitalia Pavlicenco (born 29 October 1953) is a Moldovan politician.

She grew up without a father because her father Victor Vangheli, a math and history teacher at the village school, was killed on June 26, 1953, at the age of 24, four months before Vitalia was born.

After the collapse of the USSR, Vitalia Pavlicenco became the first deputy director general of the National Press Agency "Moldova-Pres" (1990–1994) and then editor-in-chief of Mesagerul (1994–1998).

The two have a daughter together, Beatriz Pavlicenco who is a violinist and lives in Germany.

[2] At one point, the Pavlicenco family lived in Cuba, where their daughter, Beatriz, was also born.