Cannot find AndroidManifest.xml file for module xxx

Hello

I experience this error when trying to run either imported project, or another simple test project created just for this purpose. project can be compiled successfully, but during attempt to launch it, there comes this error. using Sysinternals Process Monitor I was able to find out, that Idea supposingly looks for the manifest file in src/debug directory, so I made a copy there, but same error came, although process monitor listening for all operations with file AndroidManifest.xml did not catch any "file not found" error during this attempted launch.

can this be a bug?

thank you very much in advance

regards, Marek