dimitar yanakiev vlahov (; ) (1878 in kukush, ottoman empire – 1953 in belgrade, yugoslavia) was a politician from the region of macedonia and member of the left wing of the macedonian-adrianople revolutionary movement (also known as internal macedonian revolutionary organization (imro)). as with many other imro members of the time, historians from the north macedonia consider him an ethnic macedonian and in bulgaria he is considered a bulgarian. vlahov declared himself until the early 1930s as a bulgarian and afterwards as an ethnic macedonian. however such left-wing macedonian activists, former members of the bcp and the imro (united) never managed to get rid of their strong bulgarophile sentiments, and thus practically continued to feel themselves as bulgarians even in communist yugoslavia.