Dragan Bogdanovski

Dragan Bogdanovski (. 18 September 1929 – 31 May 1998) was a Macedonian émigré, activist and founder of VMRO-DPMNE.

Life Dragan Bogdanovski was born on 18 September 1929 in Klečevce, Kumamovo region, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He graduated from a secondary agricultural school and studied at the Faculty of Agriculture in Zemun, where he was sentenced to four-month imprisonment in Belgrade in 1949 for nationalist activities. Amnesty International adopted him as a prisoner of conscience. After his release in 1988, he went on to co-find the political party Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization - Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity (VMRO-DPMNE). At the party's first congress in 1991, Bogdanovski was elected as its honorary chairman. However, due to co-founder Ljubčo Georgievski's pro-Bulgarian stance, he split from the party in 1993 and established the Macedonian National Front. Bogdanovski was buried in Kumanovo. A bust of him was placed next to the headquarters of VMRO-DPMNE in June 2023.

Georgievski accused him of being a Yugoslav secret agent. Macedonian politician Stojan Andov claimed that Bogdanovski was against the acronym "VMRO" for the name of VMRO-DPMNE. Georgievski sharply criticized him for the claim. A Macedonian political dissident in Canada, in response to the article by Andov, claimed that Bogdanovski was a collaborator of UDBA. Bulgarian academic Spas Tashev claimed that he was an agent of UDBA, for which he was criticized by Macedonian academics.