Vasil Tupurkovski (; born 8 April 1951) is a Macedonian academic, politician and the former president of the Olympic Committee of North Macedonia. Tupurkovski was born in

Skopje Skopje ( , ; ; , sq-definite, Shkupi) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It lies in the northern part of the country, in the Skopje Basin, Skopje Valley along the Vardar River, and is the political, economic, and cultura ...

, PR Macedonia, FPR Yugoslavia. After graduation, he worked as a professor of International law at the University of Skopje. He was the founder of the centrist political party Democratic Alternative (''Demokratska alternativa'') in March 1998. Between 1999 and 2000 he served as Deputy Prime Minister in the government under

Ljubčo Georgievski Ljubčo Georgievski (, ; ; born 17 January 1966) is a Macedonian politician and writer who served as the only Vice President of Macedonia from January to October 1991 and as the Prime Minister of Macedonia from 1998 to 2002. He advocated for th ...

. In April 2009, he was sentenced to three years in jail on charges of embezzlement and misuse of public funds."Tupurkovski 3 years in jail"
Macedonia Daily, 8 April 2009. This decision was reversed on 9 December 2009 by the Appellate Court. Tupurkovski was featured in the BBC documentary The Death of Yugoslavia.

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