Bogdanovski, Dragan (village Klechovce, Kumanovo, 19. IX 1929 – Sweden, 1. ⅶ 1998) – Macedonian publicist, writer, political emigrant and politic, one of the founders of VMRO-DPMNE. He graduated from the secondary agricultural school (Bitola and Skopje), studied at the Faculty of Agriculture in Zemun (1949), where he was sentenced to a four-month imprisonment in Belgrade. In 1951 he was excluded from the Faculty (without the right to study in Yugoslavia). He escaped to Greece (1951), he was in a camp, and after the liberation he traveled to France. In Paris, political science studied, formed the Macedonian Student Group “People’s Front” and issued it in. “Macedonian Iskra”. He organized the establishment of the Organization of the Macedonian National Front (Lausanne, 1957). In Oslo (Norway) he issued c. “Macedonian Lines” (1959) and c. “Macedonia” and “Free Macedonia” (Oslo, 1960). For several years, it announces the most significant immigrant newspaper in the Macedonian language “Macedonian Nation”. In 1976 he was kidnapped by the Secret Police and adopted in Skopje, where he was convicted (1979). 13 years in prison endured in Idrizovo. After the liberation, he went abroad, where he continued with the political activity, participated in the formation of VMRO-DPMNE, returned to the Republic of Macedonia and was elected honorary president of the party. In 1993 he left the party and formed a Macedonian national front, under his presidency. He went to Sweden, where he died, but was buried in Kumanovo. Lit.: Stavre Jikov, Fourth Emigrant – SKA Macedonia, Skopje, 2007. Z. Todd. Ignatius Bogdanovski
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