Interesting article.
So, if we take that some of his recomendations are used: 1) not to rush with privatisation/honest privatisation ( giving shares to workers ), so no "loans for shares" and 2) not to privatise oil/gas/natural resources companies. Probably a good PODs.
Reducing monetary supply is impossible since it's under Central Bank ( controlled by Communists at the time ), but maybe some sort of compromise is possible with them, if the Government is not rushing into privatisation?
Larger Western aid will probably remain just a dream, as in OTL...
The economics cannot be disentangled from the political, and in particular it was not impossible for the Communists to win a fair election. This puts a limit on what the government can do eg allowing private ownership of land.
The key issue for transforming the economy especially 1991-5 is that EVERYTHING is wrong because it was designed for a centralised economy, all the information reported centrally is wrong because of suppression of 75 years worth of inflation and misreporting by enterprises, and anything the government does will cause problems, and may cause whole cities to starve.
The Central Bank is not actually run by communist ideologues but apparatchiks who understand the consequences of their actions; eg Nizhny Tagil is a city of 350k built to produce tanks for the Soviet Army; what happens to the population if government funds are cut off?
Some economic reform is self-starting eg the retail sector moved from individuals on street corners, to tables, to all metal kiosks, to small shops within 3 years, some new things the government tried worked well eg GKO market, some were mixed eg enterprise directors finding new products and markets but there were still black holes eg tank factories and other heavy industry. Different sectors are moving at different speeds and the government has to balance reform with the threat of economic collapse.
Some thing eg shares for loans were just wrong, but at the time it was seen as getting some large enterprises out of the control of government, so making it harder for the communists to roll back reform if they beat Yeltsin in 1996. Unfortunately instead it created an unhealthy level of control by oligarchs.
Western aid - it will simply not work well; either it will be stolen and moved offshore (as happened to the rent some multilateral agencies were paying for their Moscow offices), or it will come with strings which are unacceptable to the Russians.
TL;DR It was a messy and fast- changing environment and often their were only bad choices.
You need an earlier POD than 1996, perhaps post the October 1993 coup attempt?