Vitalia Pavlicenco (born October 29, 1953 in
Grinăuţi) is a
Moldavia
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n politician. She was the head of the
National Liberal Party (Moldova)
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.
Biography
Vitalia Pavlicenco was born on October 29, 1953, in
Grinăuţi. 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. Her mother, Agafia Vangheli, was a teacher of
Romanian
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and
French.
After the
collapse of the USSR
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, 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).
Political life
She served as member of the
Parliament of Moldova
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(1998–2001, 2005–2009). She also held the positions of vice-president of the Union of Journalists from the Republic of Moldova and vice-president of the Romanian World Council.
Personal life
Vitalia Pavlicenco is married to Sergiu Pavlicenco, a hispanist professor at the
State University of Moldova. The two have a daughter together, Beatriz Pavlicenco who is a violinist and lives in
Germany
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.
At one point, the Pavlicenco family lived in
Cuba
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, where their daughter, Beatriz, was also born.
External links
Traversând BasarabiaParlamentul Republicii Moldova List of candidates to the position of deputy in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova for parliamentary elections of 6 March, 2005 of the Electoral Bloc “Moldova Democrata”List of deputies elected in the March 6 parliamentary electionsLista deputaţilor aleşi la 6 martie 2005 în Parlamentul Republicii Moldova
References
1953 births
Living people
Moldovan female MPs
Moldovan MPs 2005–2009
Electoral Bloc Democratic Moldova MPs
National Liberal Party (Moldova) politicians
21st-century Moldovan women politicians
Moldovan philologists
Women philologists
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