Medvedev, the new Gorbachev?

I'm working on a new set of scenarios on the future of Russia's economy and have been digging through analyses of the famous riddle wrapped in an enigma, which is how I stumbled upon this interesting case that "Medvedev's softer style (his Twitter account, his love for Deep Purple) and his rhetoric about modernization and reform -- event though it wasn't followed up by any real action -- set expectations in society, especially among the urban middle class, that change was coming." Medvedev, the new Gorbachev?