By Ben Aris in Berlin An unprecedented prisoner swap was completed on August 1 after the West and Russia exchanged a total of 26 prisoners, the likes of which has not been seen since 1985 during the depths of the Cold War. Russia gave up the elite of its political prisoners from the opposition, as well as two US journalists that are widely seen has having been snatched by the Kremlin on trumped up charges simply to be used as bargaining chips in the exchange. For its part, the West gave up cybercriminals, spies and an assassin. More interestingly, as bne IntelliNews argued in a recent opinion …